"Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little." ― Mason Cooley Topic(s): Humor More From Mason Cooley "Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort." "Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them." "Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better." More In Humor "Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant."― Washington Irving "The secret to humor is surprise."― Aristotle "Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor."― Jonathan Shapiro