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It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

Martha Gellhorn

Journalist · American · 1908 – 1998

If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.

Xun Zi

Philosopher · Chinese

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

Kurt Vonnegut

Author · American · 1922 – 2007

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

Wislawa Szymborska

Poet · Polish · b. 1923

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

Rabindranath Tagore

Poet · Indian · 1861 – 1941

When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor.

Terry Southern

Writer · American · 1924 – 1995

I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.

Manuel Puig

Author · Argentinian · 1932 – 1990

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

Joseph Addison

Writer · English · 1672 – 1719

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

Stephen King

Author · b. 1947

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

Agnes Repplier

Writer · American · 1855 – 1950

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

Norman Cousins

Editor · American · b. 1915

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

Horace Walpole

Author · English · 1717 – 1797

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Horace Walpole

Author · English · 1717 – 1797

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

George Jean Nathan

Editor · American · 1882 – 1958

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.

Allen Klein

Businessman · American · b. 1931

There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Mathematician · French · 1924 – 2010

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Thomas Carlyle

Philosopher · Scottish · 1795 – 1881

I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat.

Allen Klein

Businessman · American · b. 1931

Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.

Jonathan Shapiro

Cartoonist · South African

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

Moliere

Playwright · French · 1622 – 1673

If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.

Clarence Darrow

Lawyer · American · 1857 – 1938

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

Martin Luther

Leader · German · 1483 – 1546

Primarily I'm a social commentator rather than someone who's out to get the belly laugh.

Jonathan Shapiro

Cartoonist · South African

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Stephen King

Author · b. 1947

The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel.

Horace Walpole

Author · English · 1717 – 1797

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

Thomas Browne

Scientist · British · 1605 – 1682

I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive.

Joseph Epstein

Writer · American · b. 1937

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.

Frank Howard Clark

Writer · American

The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.

Oliver Herford

Author · American

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Horace Walpole

Author · English · 1717 – 1797

It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.

Maya Lin

Architect · American · b. 1959

When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.

Yakov Smirnoff

Comedia · Russian · b. 1951

Jerry Bruckheimer creates comedy, he just doesn't realize because he's a turd.

Trey Parker

Artist · American · b. 1969

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Oliver Goldsmith

Poet · Irish · 1730 – 1774

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Journalist · British · 1903 – 1990

Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.

Thomas Hobbes

Philosopher · English · 1588 – 1679

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

Eric Sevareid

Journalist · American · 1912 – 1992

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

Lord Byron

Poet · British · 1788 – 1824

Now, a recent study from cardiologists at the University of Maryland, has shown that laughter may have a beneficial effect on the heart.

Allen Klein

Businessman · American · b. 1931

You'd better get your laugh while you're making your point, or you won't be doing it very long.

Shel Silverstein

Poet · American · 1930 – 1999

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

William Howard Taft

President · American · 1857 – 1930

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

Agnes Repplier

Writer · American · 1855 – 1950

Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.

Dick Wolf

Producer · American · b. 1946

He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.

Theodor Adorno

Philosopher · German · 1903 – 1969

For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.

Jilly Cooper

Author · British · b. 1937

It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.

Mo Rocca

Writer · American · b. 1969

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Novelist · Russian · 1821 – 1881

Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.

John Lasseter

Director · American · b. 1957

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