Bill Cosby on humor

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap on-a-rope.

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

George Bernard Shaw1856–1950The Doctor’s Dilemma (1911), Act V

• Life & Death

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

Mark Twain1835–1910“What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us?” (1897)

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

E. B. White1899–1985“Some Remarks on Humor,” preface to A Subtreasury of American Humor (1941)