Quote by Kate Fox

Humor is my default mode.

— John Updike

Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.

— Stephen Leacock

The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.

— John Cleese

“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

The best thing about humour is that it shows people they are not alone.

— Sid Caesar

“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

“Don't you think men overrate the necessity for humoring everybody's nonsense, till they get despised by the very fools they humor?”

— George Eliot

“A sense of humor is a requisite to surviving in our demanding world”

— Janette Oke

“In fact, some people use humour so habitually that it is hard for them to remain serious for any length of time.”

— Margaret Hough

Humour is the be-all and end-all medicine of human existence.

— Debra Granik

“Humour is a manifestation of freedom. It is because there is freedom that there is smile.”

— John Fowles

“If you cannot find an element of Humour in something, your not taking it seriously enough.”

— Ilyas Kassam