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Category: Wit and Humor

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1. "One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humour."

Marshall McLuhan

Quotations about: History and Nations

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

George Jean Nathan

3. "All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl."

Charlie Chaplin, "My Autobiography"

4. "A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference and a longer view and finds them incongruous. It dampens enthusiasm; it mocks hope; it pardons shortcomings; it consoles failure. It recommends moderation."

Thornton Wilder, "The Eighth Day"

5. "The most perfect humour and irony is generally quite unconscious."

Samuel Butler, "Life and Habit"

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

Clarence Darrow

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

7. "Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one."

Oscar Wilde

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility

8. "Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke."

Steve Martin

Quotations about: Art and Culture

9. "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."

George Bernard Shaw, "The Doctor's Dilemma"

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness -:- Life and Death

10. "The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow."

Herbert George Wells

Quotations about: Time and Passing

11. "A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

12. "We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all."

Jean de La Bruyere

Quotations about: Life and Death

13. "Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food."

William Hazlitt

14. "Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven."

Mark Twain, "Following the Equator"

Quotations about: Sorrow and Nostalgia

15. "Cynicism is humour in ill health."

Herbert George Wells

16. "I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."

Will Rogers

Quotations about: Authority, Government

17. "My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world."

George Bernard Shaw

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity