Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.

Quote by James Thurber

Topics: Humor Quotes

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or...

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or...

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell...

I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell...

Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows...

Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows...

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

Let the meek inherit the earth - they have it coming to them

Let the meek inherit the earth - they have it coming to them

Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line...

Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line...

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and...

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and...

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known...

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known...

I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours....

I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours....

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Discussion in America means dissent.

Discussion in America means dissent.

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow,...

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow,...

Don't get it right, just get it written.

Don't get it right, just get it written.

Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a...

Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a...

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there...

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there...

This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all...

This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all...

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the...

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the...