Quotes about Humorists

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Humour is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention. But it has — J. K. Galbraith
Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunsh — Robert Frost
A comedian is a fellow who finds other comedians too humorous to mention. — Jack Herbert
If it's sanity you're after There's no recipe like Laughter. Laugh it off. — Henry Rutherford Elliot
Humour is an affirmation of dignity a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. — Romain Gary
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. — Peter Ustinov
Comedy is tragedy - plus time. — Carol Burnett
Caricature: putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth. — Joseph Conrad
The ability to laugh at life is right at the top with love and communication in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has — Sara Davidson
He deserves paradise who makes his companions laugh. — The Koran
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. — Victor Borge
You encourage a comic man too much and he gets silly. — Stephen Leacock
Any man will admit if need be that his sight is not good or that he cannot swim or shoots badly with a rifle but to to — Stephen Leacock
Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral. — Charles Lamb
Wit is far more often a shield than a lance. — Anonymous
If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist - I feel like countering with the word seriousist. — Peter de Vries
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it never in the tongue Of him that makes it. — William Shakespeare
Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance. — Aldous Huxley
Humour is just another defence against the universe. — Mel Brooks
The great humorist forgets himself in his delighted contemplation of other people. — Douglas Bush