Leo Rosten

"I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor."

Edward Albee

"I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it."

Frank A. Clark

"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."

Mohandas Gandhi

"If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor."

Jennifer Jones

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."

Francis Bacon

"Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear."

Thomas W. Higginson

"One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you."

Larry Gelbart

"The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes."

William Davis

"The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense."

Jacob August Riis

"The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance."

Peter De Vries

"There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor."

Thomas W. Higginson

"This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought."

Lin Yutang

"When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence."

Thomas W. Higginson

"When humor goes, there goes civilization."

Erma Bombeck

"Wit is the lowest form of humor."

Alexander Pope

"You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it."

Bill Cosby