humorists

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

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

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

Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be intolerable. So for every ten Jews beating their breasts God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast-beaters. By the time I was five I knew I was that one.

The ability to laugh at life is right at the top with love and communication in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to do with pain it exaggerates the anxieties and absurdities we feel so that we gain distance and through laughter relief.

You encourage a comic man too much and he gets silly.

The great humorist forgets himself in his delighted contemplation of other people.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.

Wit is the only wall Between us and the dark.

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

Wit is far more often a shield than a lance.

He that jokes confesses.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

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