Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

Humor is reason gone mad.

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

When humor goes there goes civilization.

The secret to humor is surprise.

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

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