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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
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 can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
E. B. White1899–1985“Some Remarks on Humor,” preface to A Subtreasury of American Humor (1941)
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox1850–1919Solitude (1883)In context
- Laughter
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter IIn context
- Friendship
- Laughter
Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
Virginia Woolf1882–1941The Common Reader (1925)