Book Quote by Baron Vaughn

There's a difference between a sense of humor and a sense of funny. A sense of humor is knowing what makes you laugh and…

— Baron Vaughn

What is a sense of humor? Surely not the ability to understand a joke. It comes rather from a residing feeling of one's own…

— Clifton Fadiman

A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which we realize that we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid…

— Dave Barry

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.

— Clifton Fadiman

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are…

— Christopher Morley

Humor and laughter are not necessarily the same thing. Humor permits us to see into life from a fresh and gracious perspective. We learn…

— Joan D. Chittister

“A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which you realize that you are trapped in a world almost entirely devoid…

— Gene Weingarten

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it ... what you wish in your secret heart were not…

— Langston Hughes

Humor is not funny. Humor is something else. Funny is a joke, sometimes silly. Comedy is deep and connected to tragedy; comedy could be…

— Gerald Stern

Senses of humor define people, as factions, deeper rooted than religious or political opinions. When carrying out everyday tasks, opinions are rather easy to…

— Criss Jami

Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problem…

— Rollo May

“This brings up yet another, far more important misconception: that being comically generative and having a sense of humor are one and the same…

— David Rakoff