Quotes of Humour - somelinesforyou

“ No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early. ”

- Groucho Marx

“ 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

“ All generalizations are false, including this one. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Humor comes from self-confidence. ”

- Rita Mae Brown

“ My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?. ”

- Larry Bird

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

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

- Alfred North Whitehead

“ Humour can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process. ”

- E. B. White

“ 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

“ Humour plays close to the big, hot fire, which is the truth, and the reader feels the heat. ”

- E. B. White

“ A humorist is a man who feels bad but who feels good about it. ”

- Don Herold

“ Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity. ”

- James Thurber

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

- Peter McArthur

“ There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke. ”

- J. J. Procter

“ The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ A comedian is a fellow who finds other comedians too humorous to mention. ”

- Jack Herbert

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

- Romain Gary

“ Caricature: putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth. ”

- Joseph Conrad

“ If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist - I feel like countering with the word seriousist. ”

- Peter De Vries

“ A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Humour is just another defence against the universe. ”

- Mel Brooks

“ Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place. ”

- Josh Billings

“ One loses so many laughs by not laughing at oneself. ”

- Sara Jeannette Duncan

“ You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. ”

- Sacha Guitry

“ The love of truth lies at the root of much humor. ”

- Robertson Davies
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