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It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

Virginia Woolf

Author · British · 1882 – 1941

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.

E. M. Forster

Novelist · English · 1879 – 1970

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

William James

Philosopher · American · 1842 – 1910

When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

Walt Disney

Cartoonist · American · 1901 – 1966

When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?

Max Frisch

Novelist · Swiss · 1911 – 1991

When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!

Dick Bruna

Artist · b. 1927

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.

Allen Klein

Businessman · American · b. 1931

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

W. Somerset Maugham

Playwright · British · 1874 – 1965

Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?

Johan Huizinga

Historian · Dutch · 1872 – 1945

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?

Chuck Palahniuk

Novelist · American · b. 1961

Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.

Tobias Wolff

Writer · American · b. 1945

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Victor Hugo

Author · French · 1802 – 1885

Have a sense of humor about life - you will need it. And be courteous.

Peter Jennings

Journalist · Canadian · b. 1938

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.

Garrison Keillor

Writer · American · b. 1942

Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.

Edmond de Goncourt

Writer · French · 1822 – 1896

So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.

Todd Solondz

Writer · American · b. 1959

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

Woody Allen

Director · American · b. 1935

I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.

Paula Danziger

Author · American · 1944 – 2004

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

Aldous Huxley

Novelist · English · 1894 – 1963

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

Langston Hughes

Poet · American · 1902 – 1967

Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.

Wavy Gravy

Activist · American · b. 1936

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

Horatio Nelson

Soldier · British · 1758 – 1805

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

Max Eastman

Author · American · 1883 – 1969

Everybody doesn't have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to.

Matt Groening

Cartoonist · American · b. 1954

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

Gertrude Stein

Author · American · 1874 – 1946

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

Zora Neale Hurston

Dramatist · American · 1891 – 1960

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

E. B. White

Writer · American · 1899 – 1985

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.

Mary Douglas

Scientist · British · 1921 – 2007

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.

Nicolas de Chamfort

Writer · French

I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.

Neil Gaiman

Author · British · b. 1960

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

David Ogilvy

Businessman · English · 1911 – 1999

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

Chuck Jones

Director · American · 1912 – 2002

Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.

Eugenio Montale

Poet · Italian · 1896 – 1981

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

Mark Twain

Author · American · 1835 – 1910

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Politician · American · 1900 – 1965

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.

Lord Chesterfield

Statesman · British · b. 1694

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

George Eliot

Author · British · 1819 – 1880

When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.

Allen Klein

Businessman · American · b. 1931

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

Alice Meynell

Poet · English · 1847 – 1922

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

William Hazlitt

Critic · English · 1778 – 1830

I think the more the actor lets you know what he thinks of the character, the less the audience cares - like a comedian who laughs at his own jokes.

Neil LaBute

Director · American · b. 1963

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Economist · American · 1908 – 2006

I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy.

Norman Jewison

Director · Canadian · b. 1926

If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.

Bob Edwards

Journalist · American · b. 1947

That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.

Mary Astell

Writer · English · 1666 – 1731

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.

Alfred North Whitehead

Mathematician · English · 1861 – 1947

Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.

Allen Klein

Businessman · American · b. 1931

I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.

Carter Burwell

Composer · American · b. 1955

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