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" Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. "

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" A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles. "

Mignon McLaughlin

" Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension. "

" I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. "

" The secret to humor is surprise. "

" Sometimes I used to think to myself, 'Have I lost a sense of humor?' but I don't think that I have. I think one can be as snarky and sarcastic as lots of people, but I have never found that it makes me particularly happy. "

Kenneth Branagh

" Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end. "

" Humor is reason gone mad. "

" My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I'm talking about or not. "

" I don't feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor. "

" A day without laughter is a day wasted. "

Charlie Chaplin

" There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another. "

" I like George Carlin's jokes. I like his humor. He's one of my heroes, and I like what he did with talking about everyday things. "

" I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side. "

Hunter S. Thompson

" The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance. "

" I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down. "

" You can find heroism everyday, like guys working terrible jobs because they've got to support their families. Or as far as humor, the things I see on the job, on the street, are far funnier than anything you'll ever see on TV. "

" Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery. "

" I'm a comedian, and I definitely see the humor in a lot of things. I am also sad a lot. I cry often and easily. I think you're supposed to feel all kinds of things. "

Ellen DeGeneres

" If you're playing a good guy, you show some darkness. If you're playing a dark guy, you show something different, like humor, that will mix it up and hopefully surpass the audience's expectations. What I'm battling all the time is complacency in the audience. I try to bring a little mystery to what might happen because that engages people more. "

" A good-humored wife who appreciates most, if not all, of my humor - her price is far above rubies, as the book of Proverbs doesn't quite say. "

" Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. "

" It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver. "

" When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real. "

" I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers. "

" You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain. "

" Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had. "

" Humor comes from self-confidence. "

Self-Confidence

" You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That's what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor. "

" Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles. "

" What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor. "

Bernard Williams