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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.
Carol Burnett
By blood a king, in heart a clown.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
'Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears, and art half stung to death by them, thou wilt never be convinced it is so.
Laurence Sterne
For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
Shirley MacLaine
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
Brevity is the body and soul of wit.
Jean Paul
Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Francis Bacon
What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding in an hour.
John Green
All of the people in my building are insane. The guy above me designs synthetic hairballs for ceramic cats. The lady across the hall tried to rob a department store...with a pricing gun...She said, Give me all of the money in the vault, or I'm marking down everything in the store.
Steven Wright
Great use they have, when in the hands Of one like me, who understands, Who understands the time and place,The person, manner, and the grace,Which fools neglect; so that we find,If all the requisites are join'd,From whence a perfect joke must spring,A joke's a very serious thing.
Charles Churchill, The Ghost (bo
If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb
Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
Flip Wilson
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
Fredrich
Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.
Noel Coward
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
Langston Hughes
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Alexander Pope, "Essay on Critic
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
Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
Charles Caleb Colton
