Comedy is tragedy plus time.
We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.
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 love of truth lies at the root of much humour.
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.
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
He who laughs lasts.
No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
You can pretend to be serious but you can't pretend to be witty.
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
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.
Humour plays close to the big hot fire which is the truth and the reader feels the heat.
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
The best definition of humour I know is: humour may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life and the artistic expression thereof. I think this is the best I know because I...
A humorist is a man who feels bad but who feels good about it.
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...
Humour can be dissected as a frog can but the thing dies in the process.
Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
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