Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

Oh Lord, give us a sense of humor with courage to manifest it forth, so that we may laugh to shame the pomps, the vanities, the sense of self-importance of the Big Fellows that the world sometimes sends among us, and who try to take our peace away.

Nothing seems too high or low for the humorist; he is above honor, above faith, preserving sense in religion and sanity in life.

A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack on morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise.

Humor to me, Heaven help me, takes in many things. There must be courage; there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism.

Gentle Dulness ever loves a joke.

The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth concatenations of life.

Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.

For every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies.