Amount Quote by Randall Munroe

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.

— John Lithgow

An uncontrolled sense of humor is often costly in business.

— William Feather

The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If you’ve got the comedy eye, you can look at any situation and see the humor in it while others don’t.

— Garry Marshall

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.

— Robert Benchley

As a comedian, you're making so many observations, so many measurements. You might catch someone's eyes as you're telling a joke, and they can…

— Sean Lock

It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.

— Edward de Bono

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 is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Humor is a very big part of life, and if you exclude humor from your book, you're not capturing a very important part of…

— Joshua Ferris

To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news.

— David Sedaris

A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.

— Khalil Gibran