Quotes About Humor

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There is nothing more precious than laughter

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

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

The wittiest authors raise the very slightest of smiles.

Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.

I don't want to be a saint, and would rather be a buffoon...

Îns? în ceea ce îi priveÅŸte pe "prietenii cei buni", mereu prea comozi ÅŸi care, tocmai ca prieteni, îÅŸi închipuie c? au dreptul la comoditate, faci bine dac? le avansezi un loc de joac?, o aren? a nepriceperii lor: vei avea astfel pricin? de râs; - sau s?-i înl?turi cu totul pe aceÅŸti prieteni buni, - ÅŸi iar s? râzi!

We should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

ridendo dicere severum . (tr. Through what is laughable say what is somber.)

Ha-ha, joke. Gussy, it achieves the same effect without using any dope at all. Listen: a tickler reminds you of your duties and opportunities—your chances for happiness and success! What's the obvious next step?" "Throw it out the window. By the way, how do you do that when you're underground?

An obscure sect, having as part of its creed the injunction Don't take yourself so damn seriously, won new adherents. The

Buddy eyed me closely. His eyes were filigreed with red. I watched as he went through one of those instantaneous mood swings that only drunks and menstruating women can manage.

I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming like the passengers in his car.

I've got to jump in the shower." "I'll Uber home," I said. "Do you realize you just made a noun into an intransitive verb?" I wiped my mouth. "Story of my life," I said.

My contrariness kept Char laughing, and his goodness kept me in love.

I'm not overweight, I'm undertall

I won two Golden Globes, and there was a long, long period in between the wins. That might be explained by the fact that when I first won the award, for '3rd Rock on the Sun,' I satirically compared aliens on the show to the Foreign Press Association. And they did not take that well.

I went to see Billy Connolly do two hours with no break at the Apollo, with Parkinson's disease, during the winter, and it was one of the most important gigs I have seen in my life.

Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedy long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any.

My favorite band - and Bobby Cannavale and Terry Winter have already made fun of me for this - is Chicago.

I liked Jonathan Winters for his character development.

My wife and I spent the winter in Worcestershire. This allowed me to tell everyone back home in the States, 'We are wintering in Worcestershire.' This may be a sentence that has never actually been uttered in human history, even by people who spend all their winters in Worcestershire.

Maybe there is something specifically Scandinavian that comes out of the long, dark winters - you have to learn to laugh at misery, in a way.