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 | I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately. — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 12 likes |
 | When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 9 likes |
 | A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 9 likes |
 | Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 9 likes |
 | Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. — Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher 9 likes |
| My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 7 likes |
 | Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 6 likes |
 | A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 6 likes |
 | You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance. — Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965, British writer 6 likes |
 | It is in the very nature of the best sort of joke to be the worst sort of insult if it is not taken as a joke. — G. K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, English writer & critic 6 likes |
 | A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher 6 likes |
 | You can pretend to be serious but you can't pretend to be witty. — Sacha Guitry, 1885-1957, French writer 5 likes |
| The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in heaven. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 5 likes |
 | Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. — Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963, French artist 5 likes |
 | Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist. — George Burns, 1896-1996, American comedian 5 likes |
 | The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know, some of these jokes just write themselves. — Dave Letterman, 1947-, American TV talk show host 5 likes |
 | Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. — Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer 4 likes |
| It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. — G. K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, English writer & critic 4 likes |
 | A sense of humor cushions the potholes on the road of life. — Frank Tyger, 1929-2011, American cartoonist 4 likes |
 | A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims 4 likes |
 | The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it's so much fun. — Jerry Seinfeld, 1954-, American comedian 4 likes |
| Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly; devils fall because of their gravity. — G. K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, English writer & critic 4 likes |
 | There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor. — Charles Dickens, 1812-1870, British writer 4 likes |
 | Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity. — James Thurber, 1894-1964, American humorist 4 likes |
 | A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. — George Orwell, 1903-1950, British writer 3 likes |
 | The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful. — Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007, American writer 3 likes |
| Impropriety is the soul of wit. — Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965, British writer 3 likes |
 | A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests. — John Dryden, 1631-1700, English poet 3 likes |
 | Comical is the understanding of the contradiction. Humor is the suspicion for it. — Umberto Eco, 1932-2016, Italian writer 3 likes |
| The man who sees the consistency in things is a wit. The man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist. — G. K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, English writer & critic 3 likes |
 | Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt. — George Santayana, 1863-1952, Spanish-American philosopher 3 likes |
 | Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 3 likes |
 | A sense of humor is just common sense dancing. — William James, 1842-1910, American philosopher 3 likes |
 | Humor is the most engaging cowardice. — Robert Frost, 1874-1963, American poet 3 likes |
 | Reason is mechanical, humor chemical, and genius organic spirit. — Friedrich von Schlegel, 1772-1829, German writer 3 likes |
 | A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. — Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889-1951, Austrian philosopher 3 likes |
 | Satire is a lesson, parody is a game. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 2 likes |
 | The ideal being? An angel ravaged by humor. — Emile M. Cioran, 1911-1995, French-Romanian philosopher 2 likes |
 | It is difficult not to write satire. — Juvenal, 1st-2nd cent. AD, Roman satiric poet 2 likes |
 | The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour, they'll take you away, man. You can't |
 | A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. |
 | Great people are always wrong to joke with their inferiors. The joke is a game, and the game supposes equality. |
| It is easier to be a lover than a husband, for the same reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day, than to say bright things from time to time. |
 | There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim. |
 | Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. |
 | Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade. |
 | Everything is funny, as soon as it happens to others. |
 | Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations. |
 | The jester is brother to the sage. |
 | Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends. |
| You can’t write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent. |
| The fact is: almost everything is funny. You just have to have a way of looking at it. |
 | There's no harm in talking to yourself, but try to avoid telling yourself jokes you've heard before. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
 | Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on. — Stephen King, 1947-, American author of horror & fantasy fiction |
 | There is parody, when you make fun of people who are smarter than you; satire, when you make fun of people who are richer than you; and burlesque, when you make fun of both while taking your clothes off. |
 | Conquered people tend to be witty. — Saul Bellow, 1914-2005, Canadian-American writer, Nobel 1976 |
 | In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. |
 | I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. |
 | Humor, the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing. — André Breton, 1896-1966, French writer, founder of Surrealism |
Movie Quotes
 | I mean, funny like I'm a clown? I amuse you? — from the film Goodfellas (1990) 3 likes |
