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Quotes About Laughter

Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.
~ Trevor Noah
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.
~ Bruce Springsteen
When you have a fat friend there are no see-saws, only catapults.
~ Demetri Martin
It's best if you can do things with a sense of humor and finesse.
~ Eartha Kitt
If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective
~ Wayne Thiebaud
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
~ William James
I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.
~ Maya Angelou
One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.
~ Ralph Fiennes
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
~ Barry Humphries
I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
~ Man Ray
Cancer is probably the most unfunny thing in the world, but I'm a comedian, and even cancer couldn't stop me from seeing the humor in what I went through.
~ Gilda Radner
Humor heals the heckler.
~ Gerald C. Meyers
If you've got the comedy eye, you can look at any situation and see the humor in it while others don't.
~ Garry Marshall
The best humor is offered up to you by the stupidity of your opponents.
~ Barney Frank
Does God have a sense of humor? He must have if He created us.
~ Jackie Gleason
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
~ Horatio Nelson
Humor was a good way to hide the pain.
~ Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero
There are many things we can live without but a sense of humor is not one of them!
~ Judy Woodruff
Humor is... despair refusing to take itself seriously.
~ Arland Ussher
God likes a little humor, as is evidence by the fact that he made the monkeys, the parrot -- and some of you people.
~ Billy Sunday
The funniest people I know always seem to be the ones surrounded by darkness. And that's probably why they're the funniest. The deeper the pit, the more humor you need to dig yourself out of it.
~ Jim Norton
The worst drug of all is seriousness versus humor and pleasure!
~ Richard Bandler