Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.
If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist - I feel like countering with the word seriousist.
Humour can be dissected as a frog can but the thing dies in the process.
Humour is just another defence against the universe.
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it never in the tongue Of him that makes it.
Wit is far more often a shield than a lance.
Humour is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention. But it has no persuasive value at all.
Caricature: putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.
Novelist Peter de Vries like Adlai Stevenson and Mark Twain has suffered from the American assumption that anyone with a sense of humour is not to be taken seriously.
Humour is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.
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