George Bernard Shaw on humor

Some men see things as they are and say why⁠—I dream things that never were and say why not.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

Mark Twain1835–1910“What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us?” (1897)

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

Bill Cosbyborn 1937

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

E. B. White1899–1985“Some Remarks on Humor,” preface to A Subtreasury of American Humor (1941)