“ I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too. ”
- Jack Benny- Copy
- 258
“ My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world. ”
- Muhammad Ali- Copy
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“ What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?. ”
- Larry Bird- Copy
- 1.7K
“ A lot of people say to me, 'Why did you kill Christ?' I dunno, it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know. ”
- Lenny Bruce- Copy
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“ Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods — moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former — but no opinion. ”
- Hannah Arendt- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Robert Frost- Copy
- 2.4K
“ The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect. ”
- John Updike- Copy
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“ Humour 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. ”
- J. K. Galbraith- Copy
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“ The total absence of humour from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. ”
- Alfred North Whitehead- Copy
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“ Humour can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process. ”
- E. B. White- Copy
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“ Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ Humour plays close to the big, hot fire, which is the truth, and the reader feels the heat. ”
- E. B. White- Copy
- 147
“ A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people. ”
- Peter McArthur- Copy
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“ There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke. ”
- J. J. Procter- Copy
- 171
“ The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ A comedian is a fellow who finds other comedians too humorous to mention. ”
- Jack Herbert- Copy
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“ Humour is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. ”
- Romain Gary- Copy
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“ Caricature: putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth. ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
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“ If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist - I feel like countering with the word seriousist. ”
- Peter De Vries- Copy
- 970
“ A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
- 2.2K
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