Ambiguous Quote by Heinrich Boll

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it or you don't. You can't…

— Heinrich Böll

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 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

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 like music. It's a rhythm, and you just kind of get the rhythm of it, and you have to know not to…

— Betty White

Humor is hard, hard, hard. And if you fail with humor, you don't fail halfway. You drop the ball humor-wise and everyone notices.

— Patrick Rothfuss

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

— Stephen Leacock

Humor is essential to a full and happy life. It is a reliever and relaxer of pressure and tension, and the saving element in…

— Richard L. Evans

Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its…

— Mark Twain

“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

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

— Clifton Fadiman