Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.
Comedy is a tragedy plus time.
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.
Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.
Even the gods love jokes.
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
Fortune and humor govern the world.
Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
Humor — the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.
Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life. Its mode has often been swift and coarse and ruthless, beyond art and beyond established civilization. It has engaged in warfare against the established heritage, against the bonds of pioneer existence. Its objective –the unconscious objective of a disunited people –has seemed to be that of creating fresh bonds, a new unity, the semblance of a society and the rounded completion of an American type.
Humor is a whisper from the soul, imploring mind and body to relax, let go and be at peace again.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
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