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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)
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
Bill Cosbyborn 1937
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)
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury1671–1713Often credited to Aristotle
Chaos in the midst of chaos isn’t funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
Steve Martinborn 1945
I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
George Carlin1937–2008
Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.
Mark Twain1835–1910
Kids like my act because I’m wearing nose glasses. Adults like my act because there’s a guy who thinks putting on nose glasses is funny.
Steve Martinborn 1945
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
Mark Twain1835–1910“The Chronicle of Young Satan” (ca. 1897–1900, unfinished), published posthumously in Mark Twain’s Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts (1969), ed. William Merriam Gibson (pp. 165–166 in the 2005 paperback printing, )
- Laughter
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
Christopher Morley1890–1957Inward Ho! (1923) Chapter “That One might almost say”
Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
Steve Martinborn 1945
The secret to humor is surprise.
Aristotle384–322 BC
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo1802–1885
- Laughter
You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Stephen Kingborn 1947
- Laughter