We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.
You can pretend to be serious but you can't pretend to be witty.
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
Comedy is tragedy plus time.
Humour is the only test of gravity and gravity of humour for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
A humorist is a man who feels bad but who feels good about it.
He that jokes confesses.
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
Any man will admit if need be that his sight is not good or that he cannot swim or shoots badly with a rifle but to touch upon his sense of humour is to give him mortal affront.
The ability to laugh at life is right at the top with love and communication in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to do with pain it exaggerates the anxieties and absurdities we feel so...
Wit is the only wall Between us and the dark.
He who laughs lasts.
He deserves paradise who makes his companions laugh.
Humour plays close to the big hot fire which is the truth and the reader feels the heat.
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't whichever seems likelier to win an effect.
The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
You encourage a comic man too much and he gets silly.
One loses so many laughs by not laughing at oneself.
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