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I think a comedian’s job isn’t just to make people laugh. I think it’s to make people think.
Ricky Gervaisborn 1961At Piers Morgan Tonight, 2011
- Thinking
A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931Sand and Foam (1926)
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832
- Laughter
Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.
Václav Havel1936–2011Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 2: Writing for the Stage
- Laughter
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
William Hazlitt1778–1830Lectures on the English Comic Writers (1819)
- Laughter
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt1778–1830Lectures on the English Comic Writers (1819)
- Talking
I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it’s better to laugh than cry.
Robert A. Heinlein1907–1988I Will Fear No Evil (1970), Chapter 25, p. 442
- Laughter
- Life & Death
A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961Letter (6 December 1924); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
- Writing
One day I would be a better hand at the game. One day I would learn how to laugh. Pablo was waiting for me, and Mozart too.
Hermann Hesse1877–1962Steppenwolf (1927), Harry Haller’s Records (continued) (6 of 6)In context
- Laughter
Sudden Glory, is the passion which maketh those Grimaces called LAUGHTER.
Thomas Hobbes1588–1679Leviathan (1651), Part I, Ch. 6In context
- Laughter
The passion of laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmities of others, or with our own formerly…
Thomas Hobbes1588–1679The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic Pt. I Human Nature (1640) Ch. 9
- Laughter
And since, I never dare to write
As funny as I can.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894“The Height of the Ridiculous”, Poems (1836)
- Writing
Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
Langston Hughes1901–1967“A Note on Humor”, from The Book of Negro Humor, p. vii (1966)
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo1802–1885
- Laughter
Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963Point Counter Point (1928), Ch. 28
- Art