Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers.
Leo Rosten
Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby
Humor is tragedy plus time
Mark Twain
There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
Bill Cosby
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby
Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility
Thomas Jefferson
The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes.
William Davis
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
Max Eastman
ìCommon sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
William James
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
Max Eastman
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done
Dwight David Eisenhower
A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable
Billy Graham
Keep your sense of humor. As General Joe Stillwell said, "The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his behind.
Donald Rumsfeld
The most valuable sense of humor is the kind that enables a person to see instantly what it isn't safe to laugh at
Donald Rumsfeld