Art Quote by E. B. White

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

Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those…

— Agnes Repplier

Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape s their opposites. It…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

“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

“Humor today goes hand in hand with our rationality, and not just rationality in the sense of cognitive sophistication, but also in the sense…

— John Morreall

So you see, the quality of humor is not a personal or a national monopoly. It's as free as salvation, and, I am afraid,…

— Mark Twain

“Humor as a system of communications and as a probe of our environment—of what's really going on—affords us our most appealing anti-environmental tool. It…

— Marshall McLuhan

Humor has a way of bringing people together. It unites people. In fact, I'm rather serious when I suggest that someone should plant a…

— Ron Dentinger

“Preacher Henry Ward Beecher said, “A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It is jolted by every pebble…

— Ted Cunningham

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at…

— James Thurber

Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity…

— Diane Keaton