Humor is the memory of emotional distress when one is calm. [Beautiful] Sherber: "The Law of Humor"

Humor is to achieve madness "rationally". [Beautiful] Marcus: "The Law of Humor"

A sense of humor is a sense of proportion. [Li] Kahlil Gibran: "Sand and Foam"

Laughter and humor are privileges that only humans have. [Japan] Daisaku Ikeda: "Message to Youth"

Humor is also a kind of stubbornness, an emotion that insists on breaking the window paper and letting in the sunshine and air. 〔中〕Wang Meng: "Stories of Style"

Humor is at most a kind of temperament. It can never be labeled as an idea, let alone a profession. [Chinese] Qian Zhongshu: "Joking"

Whisps are like the blunt tip of a sword used in sword practice. No matter how you use it, you can't hurt anyone. [English] Shakespeare: "Much Ado About Nothing"

It can enhance our sense of survival and keep our minds sound. [English] Chaplin: "Humorous Photojournalism"

Humor is the best doctor. [Beauty] Peter: "The Law of Humor"

Humor is the natural expression of people's emotions, directly connected to the nature of the other person. It can nourish life like lubricating oil. [Japan] Daisaku Ikeda: "Message to Youth"

People with a sense of humor will not make people disgusted, and topics with a sense of humor will not put pressure on people. [Japan] Daisaku Ikeda: "Message to Youth"

Humor brings joy to people, while bad words create pain to people. [Chinese] Songlin: "Humorous Essays"

Humor is a sword to the enemy and a fire to ugliness. [Chinese] Songlin: "Humorous Essays"

The most humorous writers make people smile almost imperceptibly. [Germany] Nietzsche: "Humanity, All Too Human"

The key to a sense of humor is to break the shackles of tradition. [Beautiful] Peter: "The Law of Humor"

Humor brings understanding and tolerance, while sarcasm brings profound and unfriendly understanding. [US] Agnes Replier: "In Search of Laughter"

When humor is let go, it becomes nonsense and joking. [Middle] Lao She: "A Narrative of Lao She's Life and Creation"

True humor can laugh at itself. It is not only a humorous view of life, but also a humorous view of humor itself. [Chinese] Qian Zhongshu: "Joking"

Humor does not necessarily make people laugh, humor more often makes people think. [Chinese] Song Lin: "Humor Essays"

Humor is a sense of kindness, relaxation, and equality. Posturing to scare people is the enemy of humor. [Chinese] Wang Meng: "Style Essays"

Humor is a mixed taste of sour, sweet, bitter, salty and spicy. It doesn't seem to taste as strong as Pain and Revelry, but it should be said to be chewier than Pain and Revelry. [Chinese] Wang Meng: "Style Essays"

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow. [US] Mark Twain: "A Journey Around the Equator"

Freedom produces humor, and humor produces freedom. [Germany] Jean-Paul Richter: "Introduction to Aesthetics"

Humor comes from wisdom, and bad words come from incompetence. 〔中〕Song Lin: "Humorous Essays"

Humor is not pathological, nor is it mystical, nor is it pretentious. Humor is the embodiment of natural beauty. [Chinese] Song Lin: "Humorous Essays"

The soul of humor is sincerity and solemnity. 〔中〕Wang Meng: "Style Notes"

Please use irony to make people smile, but do not use it to pierce people's hearts. [English] Chester Field: "Letter"

The satirist wins praise from others not through love but through terror. [English] Hazlitt: "Various Characters"

How terrible it would be if a great genius mastered the weapon of irony! [English] Yuba: "Apology of this Life"

The satirist limits himself to only half the realm of experience. [English] Aldous Huxley: "Counterpoint"

When making judgments, you should avoid being close to irony. Of all the tendencies of the mind, sarcasm is the farthest from intelligence. [Dharma] St. Tibufo: "My Poison"

"Irony" and "compassion" are a pair of beautiful assistants.

The former makes life lively and lovely with a smile, while the latter makes life sacred with tears. [French] France: "Letter"

If you want to pursue a clear mind, the only prescription is to laugh and get rid of everything with a smile. [English] Henry Eliot: "Barnes and Quotations"

Humor is precisely the way to defend against external harm. [English] Henry Eliot: "Barnes and Quotations"

I always tell the young writers I meet that if they really want to find a way to succeed, then read And for God's sake, write more things that make people laugh. [US] Bennett Cerf: "Contrast Law"

Any politician with a big belly knows how to teach Israelis and Arabs to achieve peace in the Middle East. But to write a joke, to write a fragment to make people giggle or laugh out loud, requires the author to have a very high IQ. [US] James Selpatrick: "The Writer's Art"

We respect people who have a sense of humor, because having a sense of humor means you are in control of the situation. If a situation goes badly and you can find humor in it, it means you are not intimidated by the bad situation, which means you can handle this difficult matter. [US] Robert Alban: "Akron Beacon Magazine"

Humor is the mysterious weapon of non-fiction writers. It's mysterious because so few writers realize that humor is often their best, and sometimes only, tool for making their main points. [English] William Zinsser: "The Craft of Writing"

Humor writers, like Hemingway and Faulkner, have serious writing goals. In fact, they enable our country to better see its national wealth. For them, humor is a very important job. Humor is an attempt to illustrate something important in a particular way, and the methods adopted by other orthodox writers are orthodox ways of explaining things. Their works were so orthodox that no one looked at them. [English] William Zinsser: "The Skill of Writing"

The real source of humor is not joy but sadness. [US] Mark Twain: "The Mysterious Stranger"

In my writing, I sometimes use humor to deal with very serious and unusual issues. [US] John F. Heller: "U.S. News and World Report"

Jewish comedy and tragedy are always connected together, just like conjoined twins. Jewish philosophers called them "laughter with tears." You laugh to give yourself courage, not to make yourself sad. You have to cry, because human comedy is not always funny. Nathan Osubil: "Introducing the Treasury of Jewish Humor"

Comedy is tragedy plus time. Anonymous

All this means is that tragedy may happen to you or a family member, and all you can do is cry, panic, or feel extremely sad. But in a year or two, or ten years, or maybe two months or two days, you might be able to see the humor in these events. [US] Robert Alban: "Ackron Beacon Magazine"

The material of humor is tragedy... It is therefore absurd to suppose that there are subjects which humorists and comedy writers are not allowed to intervene at all. [English] Steve Allen: "Funny People"

Nothing can withstand the attacks of funny people. [US] Mark Twain: "The Mysterious Stranger"

I think most people in the humor world had an unhappy childhood. I once asked George Abbott what he thought of a creative person. He said: "Having an unhappy childhood." Such a childhood makes you enter the realm of fantasy early on the journey of life. Buchwald: "How Great Comedy Writers Make It Funny"

Real humor is always defined as offending the masses, because the essence of humor is to laugh at our prejudices and current systems. [English] Mordechai Richler: "The Best of Modern Humor"

Elegance and humor are contradictory, just like the chaste prostitute. [US] Malcolm Muggeridge: "Times"

You must have courage, fearlessness, a pair of keen eyes and a crazy brain.

[US] Dorothy Parker: "The New York Times"

Generally speaking, I don't believe in good humor, it doesn't exist. The most disgracefully disrespectful thing I ever heard was Will Roger's "Oh I've never met a guy I didn't like." [US] Perelman: "The New York Times Book Review"

Humor is a confusion of emotions quietly remembered in the brain. [US] James Thurber: "New York Post"

Humor is a dignified confirmation that a man is superior to all those around him. [French] Romain Gary: "Hope at Dawn"

Humor in its most concise form is unpredictable. It is a combination of unrelated factors. Anonymous

If I think it's funny, it's funny, I never wonder if anyone else thinks it's funny? [Germany] Fran Leibowitz

Only a kind and decent person can have a high sense of humor. Only by having a sense of humor can you increase your charm in interpersonal communication and make you loved and welcomed by people. [Chinese] Li Yanling: "Communication Skills in Life"

Your understanding of humor is rather confusing, as is most people. What the public can understand is a lot of low-level, insignificant, and obviously incongruous little farce, which is weird and ridiculous and can only cause a giggle. There are many higher-level jokes in this world that are buried under these silly farces. [US] Mark Twain: "The Mysterious Stranger"

There are many great humorists who cry behind their natural enemies. Those fools who have no appreciation ability can neither understand the bold humor, Nor can I understand subtle humor. More Americans are in school than ever before, but fewer Americans than ever have the basic education and intelligence to appreciate and understand satire. To put it bluntly, this means that they don't know how to joke, and they will not buy such books, so there is no stupid publisher who will not stop publishing these books, which means that geniuses cannot be born, so there is no such thing as genius. Won't be here much longer. [English] William Peter Bratey: "Contrast Method"

Contemporary humorists will become melancholic and eccentric when they leave their own publications. [US] Mordechai Richler: "The Best of Modern Humor"