A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it never in the tongue Of him that makes it.
Wit is the only wall Between us and the dark.
Humour is just another defence against the universe.
The great humorist forgets himself in his delighted contemplation of other people.
Humour plays close to the big hot fire which is the truth and the reader feels the heat.
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
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...
Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity.
A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
There are things of deadly earnest that can only be safely mentioned under cover of a joke.
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't whichever seems likelier to win an effect.
Humour is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.
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.
You encourage a comic man too much and he gets silly.
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...
He deserves paradise who makes his companions laugh.
Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.
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