Humor is reason gone mad.
Date of birth: 1895-10-02
Date of death: 1977-08-19
Quotes number: 70
Nationality: American
Profession: Comedian
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
A joke is a very serious thing.
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.