In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
Thomas Jefferson

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
Mark Twain

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
Mark Twain

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
Mark Twain

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

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

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

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
Bill Cosby

Humor is reason gone mad.
Groucho Marx

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.
Lou Holtz

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
Robert Frost

The secret to humor is surprise.
Aristotle

When humor goes, there goes civilization.
Erma Bombeck

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
Erma Bombeck

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
Jonathan Swift

Gags die, humor doesn't.
Jack Benny

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

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
Langston Hughes

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
Franklin D. Roosevelt