Romaine Empire

Gags die, humor doesn't. - Jack Benny

Humor is a universal language. - Joel Goodman

Coincidences are spiritual puns. - G K Chesterton

Laughter can bring a new perspective. - Christopher Durang

Why should things be easy to understand? - Thomas Pynchon

The only real laughter comes from despair. - Groucho Marx

A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. - Clive James

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. - Max Eastman

Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival. - Aung San Suu Kyi

Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh. - Tom Lehrer

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. - Charlie Chaplin

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out my nose. - Woody Allen

Never trust a theologian who doesn't have a sense of humor. - D Elton Trueblood

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

Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away. - Benjamin Franklin

I live a very joyful life, with a lot of laughter and good times. - Kimberly Elise

Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. - Oscar Wilde

Laughter crosses boundaries of class and age. Humour is universal. - Jeremy Lloyd

Leave some mystery to the world and they will remember you forever. - Amit Kalantri

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself. - Doug Larson

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together. - Max Eastman

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

Bad humour is an evasion of reality; good humour is an acceptance of it. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. - Joseph Addison

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor. - Bernard Williams

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine. - Peter Ustinov

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. - George Herbert

Humour is based on a modicum of truth. Ever heard a joe-k about a father-in-law? - Dick Clark

I am on your Walk of Fame in Toronto. My sense of humour is Canadian. But I can't vote. - Donald Sutherland

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter. - Joseph Addison

Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times. - John Gerzema

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor. - Thomas W. Higginson

How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations? - Jane Swan

A benefit of any job is laughter. It should never be a crime to have fun on the job. It may be a crime not to. - Terry Paulson

Two things are important for missionaries: (1) they have a sense of humour; and (2) the have no sense of smell. - Phil Callaway

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. - Albert Einstein

There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face. - Eva Hoffman

When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real. - Tina Fey

From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining. - Leonard Bernstein

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. - Kahlil Gibran

She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great, but how to laugh through it. - Liza Minnelli

Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy. - Amy Alcott

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost. - James Thurber

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. - Maya Angelou

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful. - Rashida Jones

There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about. - Criss Jami

Then we got into a labyrinth, and, when we thought we were at the end, came out again at the beginning, having still to see as much as ever. - Plato

I was named the Class Clown in the high school yearbook, so I was always turning to comedy and laughter to heal and to get me through things. - Guillermo Diaz

Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind. - E.B. White

A woman with confidence is hypnotic. A smile is mesmerizing. Presence, openness, a sense of humor - these are all things that make a woman attractive. - Jessica Ortner