Humorists Quotes

One loses so many laughs by not laughing at oneself.

Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Novelist Peter de Vries like Adlai Stevenson and Mark Twain has suffered from the American assumption that anyone with a sense of humour is not to be taken seriously.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Humour is an affirmation of dignity a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

The ability to laugh at life is right at the top with love and communication in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to do with pain it exaggerates the anxieties and absurdities we feel so that we gain distance and through laughter relief.

Humour is just another defence against the universe.

Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.

The total absence of humour from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

You can pretend to be serious but you can't pretend to be witty.

Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.

A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.