Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

Humor is a tool to ease the harsh realities of life.

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

CALVIN:
Isn't it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor?

When you think about it, it's weird that we have a physiological response to absurdity. We laugh at nonsense. We like it. We think it's funny.

Don't you think it's odd that we appreciate absurdity? Why would we develop that way? How does it benefit us?

HOBBES:
I suppose if we couldn't laugh at the things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.

It always seemed to me that if you could get a laugh out of something, that was good, and if you could make life more colorful than it actually was, that was good. So, any artist of individual who worked in those two directions was doing something good.

Scraps thought it was odd that they could be so easily amused, but decided there could be little harm in people who laughed so merrily.

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

(A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.)

You can laugh at bad things without being bad people.

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

Be funny whenever possible, even if some people don't get it.

A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.