Cruelty Quote by James Thurber

Humor is the pensiveness of wit.

— Robert Aris Willmott

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

— Stan Laurel

Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously; wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more…

— William Hazlitt

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

— Frank Muir

“A sense of humor is a serious business; and it isn't funny, not having one. Watch the humorless closely: the cocked and furtive way…

— Martin Amis

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see,…

— Victor Borge

Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the…

— Oscar W. Firkins

Humor is not an unconditional virtue; its moral character depends on its object. To laugh at the contemptible, is a virtue; to laugh at…

— Ayn Rand

Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires…

— Florence King

There are two kinds of humor. One kind that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity -- like what Garrison Keillor…

— Molly Ivins

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

Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.

— Tom Robbins