Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
Irony is a great tool to deal with things. It's an intellectualization, a way to go above things, which can work.
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.
Humor's an excellent way to make a point more palatable and/or relatable.
Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.