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“It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above…

— Viktor E. Frankl

Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.

— Andre Breton

When I started, I wanted to be thought of as tortured and seductive, not funny, but humor tends to be a reflexive part of…

— Mark Leyner

Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.

— E. B. White

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

— Alice Meynell

The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.

— George Bernard Shaw

Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking…

— George Gissing

Humor is about perspective, and hanging out with people who see life through a similar lens is so important.

— Mariska Hargitay

“Humor relieves the tension between what we see or desire but repress in order to sustain a survivable illusion about the world we live…

— Lynda Williams

Being funny is a gift, and, when done well, is an art form.

— Craig Ferguson

A sense of humor is an escape valve for the pressures of life.

— Richard G. Scott

Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life.…

— Constance Rourke