Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
~ W. H. Auden ~
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte ~
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
~ Edward De Bono ~
Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
~ Victor Borge ~
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
~ Mel Brooks ~
A rich man's joke is always funny.
~ Thomas Edward Brown ~
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.
~ Dick Clark ~
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
~ Fredrich ~
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
~ Mahatma Gandhi ~
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
~ Roman Gary ~
I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice.
~ Samuel Johnson ~
WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.
~ Ellie Katz ~
One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.
~ Jean De La Bruyere ~
Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge ~
Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.
~ Frank Muir ~
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
~ Lord Nelson ~
There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.
~ J. J. Procter ~
One never needs their humor as much a when they argue with a fool.
~ Chinese Proverb ~
The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh
~ Carl Reiner ~
Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.
~ Stephen Sondheim ~
A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.
~ Lionel Strachey ~
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
~ Mark Twain ~
Isn't it sad how some people can't be funny, so they have to settle for being obnoxious?
~ Source Unknown ~
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
~ Peter Ustinov ~
If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her.
~ Nicol Williamson ~
