Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Romain Gary
What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.
Rudolph Giuliani
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony
Lionel Trilling
Affection without sentiment, authority without cruelty, discipline without aggression, humor without ridicule, sacrifice without obligation, companionship without possessiveness.
William E. Blatz
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
Peter De Vries
Humor is reason gone mad.
Groucho Marx
Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Aristotle
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
Erma Bombeck
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
T. S. Eliot