It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.

He [P.G.Wodehouse] is I believe, the only man living who speaks with equal fluency the American and English languages.