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Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

I'll do humor about myself, I'll poke fun and everything, but that's me and I can do it to me. I think it's cruel to do it to somebody else.

It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

The Good Humor man can only be pushed so far.

The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.

Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

I think it's because it's so different and it takes risks. Plus, it's really smart humor. It gives the audience credit in terms of not needing to tell them when to laugh. I love that about the show. There's no laugh track.

Charlie Chaplin's genius was in comedy. He has no sense of humor, particularly about himself.

A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.

We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.