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 first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
Humour is an affirmation of dignity a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
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.
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.
Humour can be dissected as a frog can but the thing dies in the process.
The total absence of humour from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
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