Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

 —Christopher Morley

Most of the time, I don’t have much fun. The rest of the time, I don’t have any fun at all.

 —Woody Allen

There’s no such thing as “fun for the whole family.”

 —Jerry Seinfeld

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people — that is people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

 —James Thurber

Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is sure not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers.

 —Leo Rosen

The satirist shoots to kill, while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

 —Peter De Vries

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

 —Herodotus

All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

 —Samuel Butler

Fun is a good thing, but only when it spoils nothing better.

 —George Santayana

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs — jolted by every pebble in the road.

 —Henry Ward Beecher

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

 —William James