humorists

You can pretend to be serious but you can't pretend to be witty.

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

One loses so many laughs by not laughing at oneself.

Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it.

We are all here for a spell get all the good laughs you can.

No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.

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

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

If it's sanity you're after There's no recipe like Laughter. Laugh it off.

Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

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

The love of truth lies at the root of much humour.

He who laughs lasts.

The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

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

Humour is just another defence against the universe.

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

He deserves paradise who makes his companions laugh.