Quotes about Humorists

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Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. — Virginia Woolf
The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't whichever seems likelier to — John Updike
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth. — Charles Lamb
He that jokes confesses. — Italian proverb
There are things of deadly earnest that can only be safely mentioned under cover of a joke. — J. J. Procter
Humour is the only test of gravity and gravity of humour for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious and — Aristotle
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. — Will Rogers
A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people. — Peter McArthur
Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity. — James Thurber
The best definition of humour I know is: humour may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life — Stephen Leacock
A humorist is a man who feels bad but who feels good about it. — Don Herold
Humour plays close to the big hot fire which is the truth and the reader feels the heat. — E. B. White
Wit is the only wall Between us and the dark. — Mark Van Doren
Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be intolerable. So for every ten Jews beating their breasts God des — Mel Brooks
Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration. — Henry Ward Beecher
Novelist Peter de Vries like Adlai Stevenson and Mark Twain has suffered from the American assumption that anyone with — Timothy Foote
Humour can be dissected as a frog can but the thing dies in the process. — E. B. White
Humour is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite. — Christian Morgenstern
The total absence of humour from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. — Alfred North Whitehead
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God. — Karl Barth