Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Wit is the only wall Between us and the dark.
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 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.
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.
You encourage a comic man too much and he gets silly.
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.
He deserves paradise who makes his companions laugh.
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.
If it's sanity you're after There's no recipe like Laughter. Laugh it off.
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.
Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.
Wit is far more often a shield than a lance.