Artistic Quote by Stephen Leacock

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 a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.

— Sigmund Freud

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 a whisper from the soul, imploring mind and body to relax, let go and be at peace again.

— Anonymous

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 process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.

— Andre Breton

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

— John Ross Bowie

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

— Romain Gary

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 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

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

Humor is vague, runaway stuff that hisses around the fissures and crevices of the mind, like some sort of loose physic gas.

— Jonathan Miller