You encourage a comic man too much and he gets silly.
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
One loses so many laughs by not laughing at oneself.
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 comedian is a fellow who finds other comedians too humorous to mention.
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...
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
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.
Humour is an affirmation of dignity a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
The great humorist forgets himself in his delighted contemplation of other people.
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 total absence of humour from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
If it's sanity you're after There's no recipe like Laughter. Laugh it off.
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
There are things of deadly earnest that can only be safely mentioned under cover of a joke.
Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity.
Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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