James Thurber Quotes

We do not take humor seriously enough.

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

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

I like humor.

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

I think I have always had a little humor.

But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.

I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.

For me, humor is everything!

I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?

Being funny is everything to me.

Humor is my default mode.

There's always a source for humor.

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.

Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.

Humor is a blessing to me. My earliest recollections are of looking at something and seeing the lighter side. But it's always spontaneous. I couldn't write a comedy skit for someone else.

I always gravitate toward the humor in something.

I think everybody would admit that we've got a sense of humor.

Humor is a very personal, subjective thing.

We're all funny. Humor unites us.

I like good humor.

I don't think any writer is a friend to the reader if he or she is not funny.

I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.

Humor comes from self-confidence.