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Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.

- Salma Hayek

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Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

Humor -- the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

Nelson, Lord

Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.

Smith, Alfred E.

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

Irving, Washington

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

Charlie Chaplin

One never needs their humor as much as when they argue with a fool.

Proverb, Chinese

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

E. B. White

Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic good-natured laughter and is favored by the healing-power gang. Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.

King, Florence

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.

Wilson, Flip

The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.

Martin, Steve

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

Conrad, Joseph

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor.

Maugham, W. Somerset

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

Dick Clark

A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.

Strachey, Lionel

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

James Thurber

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

Muir, Frank

What's the point of havin'a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?

Jeph Jacques

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

Gandhi, Mahatma

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

Fredrich

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

Herold, Don

Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

Bill Nye

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

Warhol, Andy

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

James Thurber

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Twain, Mark

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

Humor is a whisper from the soul, imploring mind and body to relax, let go and be at peace again.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her.

Williamson, Nicol

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

A. Whitney Brown

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Isn't it sad how some people can't be funny, so they have to settle for being obnoxious?

The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.

Knox, Ronald

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

Eva Hoffman

Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.

Mary Hirsch

Where ever you find humor, you find pathos close by it side.

Whipple, Edwin P.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.

Clark, Dick

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