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Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
Robert Frost1874–1963Letter to Louis Untermeyer (March 10, 1924)
There are three things which are real: God, human folly, and laughter. Since the first two pass our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Aubrey Menen, Rama Retold (1954), p. 231
- Laughter
To laugh with others is one of life’s great pleasures. To be laughed at by others is one of life’s great hurts.
FTFrank Tyger
- Laughter
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
Nicolas Chamfort1740–1794Often credited to Charlie Chaplin
- Laughter
In the end, everything is a gag.
Charlie Chaplin1889–1977
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832
- Laughter
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Victor Borge1909–2000
- Laughter
Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.
WRWilliam Rotsler1926–1997
Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Interviewed by J. Rentilly, “The Best Jokes Are Dangerous”, McSweeny’s (September 2002)
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007
- Laughter
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Cat’s Cradle (1963), Chapter 88
- Laughter
- Maturity
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950John Bull’s Other Island (1907), Act II
- Truth & Lies
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.
Will Rogers1879–1935The Illiterate Digest (1924)
There is no credit to being a comedian, when you have the whole Government working for you. All you have to do is report the facts. I don’t even have to exaggerate.
Will Rogers1879–1935Will Rogers, Ambassador of Good Will, Prince of Wit and Wisdom (1935)
- Government
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881Sartor Resartus (1833–1834), Bk. I, ch. 4.
- Laughter