- Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.
- Berkeley Breathed on Humor
- Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.
- Herbert Beerbohm Tree on Humor
- Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.
- Russell Baker on Humor
- Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
- Eric Sevareid on Humor
- No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Humor
- Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor it is the sign that he wants all the truth.
- Mark Van Doren on Humor
- 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 on Humor
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