humor

"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs--jolted by every pebble in the road."
--Henry Ward Beecher

"We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him."
--Napoleon Bonaparte

"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."
--W. H. Auden

"Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room."
--Phyllis Diller

"Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists in the room will laugh equally. "
--Garrison Keillor

"An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather."
--Washington Irving

"WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness."
--Ellie Katz,

"Good humor isn't a trait of character; it is an art which requires practice."
--David Seabury

"Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth--a sense of humor."
--source unknown

"Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun."
--Flip Wilson

"Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society."
--William Thackeray

"They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure."
--Ernest Hemingway

"A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused." --Shirley Maclaine

"It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean."
--Mae West