He that jokes confesses.
You can pretend to be serious but you can't pretend to be witty.
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.
We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.
Comedy is tragedy plus time.
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...
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
The love of truth lies at the root of much humour.
A humorist is a man who feels bad but who feels good about it.
Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only c...
The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
One loses so many laughs by not laughing at oneself.
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Humour plays close to the big hot fire which is the truth and the reader feels the heat.
Humour is just another defence against the universe.
The great humorist forgets himself in his delighted contemplation of other people.
Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.
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