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

- Twain, Mark

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

Martin, Steve

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

Mel Brooks

An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.

Rourke, Constance

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Charlie Chaplin

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

James Thurber

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

Herold, Don

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

Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth -- a sense of humor.

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

Knox, Ronald

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

If you're at school and you're not that bright or good-looking or popular or whatever, and one day you say something and someone laughs, well, you sort of grab onto it, don't you? you think, well I run funny and I've got this stupid big face and big thighs and no-one fancies me, but at least I can make people laugh. And It's such a nice feeling, making someone laugh, that maybe you get a bit reliant on it. Like, if you're not funny then you're not... anything.

David Nicholls

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

Martin, Steve

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

The best defence against misguided arrogance is a keen sense of humour.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

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

Mary Hirsch

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

Lewis Mumford

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

Eva Hoffman

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

Eco, Umberto

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

Colby, Frank Moore

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

Albee, Edward

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

Truman, Harry S

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

Warhol, Andy

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

A. Whitney Brown

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

Hughes, Langston

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Wilson, Flip

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Strachey, Lionel

The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella.

David Nicholls

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

Bill Nye

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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

Twain, Mark

I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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