Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
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...
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...
You encourage a comic man too much and he gets silly.
The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't whichever seems likelier to win an effect.
One loses so many laughs by not laughing at oneself.
The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist - I feel like countering with the word seriousist.
He deserves paradise who makes his companions laugh.
Wit is far more often a shield than a lance.
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
Humour is an affirmation of dignity a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity.
Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be intolerable. So for every ten Jews beating their breasts God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast-beaters. By the time I was five I k...
A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
The great humorist forgets himself in his delighted contemplation of other people.
A comedian is a fellow who finds other comedians too humorous to mention.
Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.
If it's sanity you're after There's no recipe like Laughter. Laugh it off.