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.
~ Christopher Morley

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
~ Irvin S. Cobb

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

Humor results when society says you can't scratch certain things in public, but they itch in public.
~ Tom Walsh

Humor has a way of bringing people together. It unites people. In fact, I'm rather serious when I suggest that someone should plant a few whoopee cushions in the United Nations.
~ Ron Dentinger

Every survival kit should include a sense of humor.
~ Author Unknown

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.
~ Mark Twain

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity.
~ James Thurber

Common 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