Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Wit is the only wall Between us and the dark.
The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
Humour is just another defence against the universe.
The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't whichever seems likelier to win an effect.
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
One loses so many laughs by not laughing at oneself.
Humour is an affirmation of dignity a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist - I feel like countering with the word seriousist.
Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
You encourage a comic man too much and he gets silly.
He deserves paradise who makes his companions laugh.
A comedian is a fellow who finds other comedians too humorous to mention.
The great humorist forgets himself in his delighted contemplation of other people.
A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
If it's sanity you're after There's no recipe like Laughter. Laugh it off.
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...
The total absence of humour from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
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.
Wit is far more often a shield than a lance.
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