Complicated Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.

— Mark Twain

Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.

— Max Eastman

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

Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.

— E. B. White

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

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 a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, it's unplanned, it's full of surprises.

— Erma Bombeck

Humor is a way to deal with stresses. It is a way to cope.

— John Ross Bowie

Humor is the shock absorber of life; it helps us take the blows.

— Peggy Noonan

Humor is just making fun of a situation. But humor is what gets people through a lot of things.

— Nate Bargatze

Humor is about perspective, and hanging out with people who see life through a similar lens is so important.

— Mariska Hargitay

Humor enables us to deal with and overcome many of the most painful and difficult situations in our lives.

— Frederick Lenz