Comedy is tragedy plus time.
We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.
He who laughs lasts.
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
The love of truth lies at the root of much humour.
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Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
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.
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
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.
He that jokes confesses.
Humour can be dissected as a frog can but the thing dies in the process.
A humorist is a man who feels bad but who feels good about it.
Wit is the only wall Between us and the dark.
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.