Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. 

It's unbridled, it's unplanned, it's full of surprises.

-Erma Bombeck

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

We do not take humor seriously enough.
-Konrad Lorenz

Humor, in its simplest form,
is the unexpected...
the co-joining of unlikely elements.
-S. J. Perelman

Good humor is a paradox.
The unexpected juxtaposition
of the reasonable next to the unreasonable.
-Melvin Helitzer

The secret of humor is surprise.
-Aristotle

Nothing is so perfectly amusing
as a total change of ideas.
-Laurence Sterne

Humor arise directly from the process of perception
which allows the mind to switch over
and look at something in a completely new way.
-Edward de Bono

Humor may be defined
as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life,
and the artistic expression thereof.
-Rudyard Kipling

Nothing is better
than the unintended humor of reality.
-Steve Allen

The kind of humor I like
that which makes me laugh for five seconds
and think for ten minutes.
-William Davis

There are some things so serious
you have to laugh at them.
-Niels Bohr

Humor is an affirmation of dignity,
a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
-Romain Gary

The love of truth
lies at the root of much humor.
-Robertson Davies

I have always noticed
that people will never laugh
at anything that is not based on truth.
-Will Rogers

When a thing is funny,
search it carefully for a hidden truth.
-George Bernard Shaw

Nothing in man is more serious
than his sense of humor;
it is a sign that he wants all the truth.
-Mark Van Doren

Humor is the contemplation of the finite
from the point of view of the infinite.
-Christian Morgenstern

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 the ability to see three sides to one coin.
-Ned Rorem

A sense of humor
is a sense of proportion.
-Kahlil Gibran

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

A well balanced person
is one who finds both sides of an issue laughable.
-Herbert Prochnow

Everything is funny
as long as it is happening to somebody else.
-Will Rogers

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

The best way to deal with imperfection is to laugh at it...
especially if you don't plan to change it.
-Joyce Saltman

Humor is emotional chaos
remembered in tranquillity.
-James Thurber

Chaos in the midst of chaos is not funny,
but chaos in the midst of order is.
-Steve Martin

A sense of humor is one thing
no one will admit not having.
-Mark Twain

A person without a sense of humor
is like a wagon without springs.
It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
-Henry Ward Beecher

Humor is a social lubricant
that helps us get over some of the bad spots.
-Steve Allen

Humor is the affectionate
communication of insight.
-Leo Rosten

Humor is knowledge with a soft smile.
-Henry Nouwen

I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle
to let us becomes more connected
with ourselves and each other.
-Lily Tomlin

Humor - it helps to make the vibe better -
it loosens up the vibrations.
-Brian Wilson

True humor is fun — it does not put down, kid, or mock.
It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off.
True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together.
-Hugh Prather

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

Humor is the sign of light from above.
When that light touches the mind, it tickles it,
and it is the tickling of the mind that produces humor.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

The essence of humor is sensibility,
warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.
-Thomas Carlyle

Humor is wit and love.
-William Makepeace Thackeray

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart.
It is not contempt; its essence is love.
It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
-Thomas Carlyle

Humor is the sunshine of the mind.
-Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Humor, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine,
bathes its objects in a genial and abiding light.
-Edwin P. Whipple

Humor is a presence in the world - like grace -
and shines on everybody.
-Garrison Keillor