Albee Edward

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humour.

Bailey John

Politics is not a good location or a vocation for anyone lazy, thin-skinned or lacking a sense of humour.

Brooks Mel

Mumour is just another defence against the universe.

Campbell Mrs Patrick 1865-1940

Do you know why God withheld the sense of humour from women?
So that we might love men instead of laugh at them.

Davidson Sara

The ability to laugh at life is right at the top, with love and communication, in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to do with pain; it exaggerates the anxieties and absurdities we feel, so that we gain distance and through laughter, relief.

Davies Robertson 1913-1995

The love of truth lies at the root of much humour.

Frost Robert 1874-1963

Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.

Galbraith J.K.

Humour is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention. But it has no persuasive value at all.

Gary Romain 1914-1990

Humour is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Kierkegaard Sören 1813-1855

The sadness in legitimate humour consists in the fact that honestly, and without decevit, it reflects in a purely human way upon what it is to be a child.

Leacock Stephen 1869-1944

The best definition of humour I know is: humour may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof. I think this is the best I know because I wrote it myself.

Leacock Stephen 1869-1944

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 touch upon his sense of humour is to give him mortal affront.

McLuhan Marshall 1911-1980

One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humour.

Morgenstern Christian

Humour is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

Pope Alexander 1688-1744

‘Epitaph: On Mr Gay in Westminster Abbey'

Of manners gentle, of affections mild;
In wit, a man; simplicity, a child;
With native humour temp'ring virtuous rage,
Formed to delight at once and lash the age.

Thurber James 1894-1961

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

White E.B. 1899-1985

Humour can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process.

White E.B. 1899-1985

Humour plays close to the big, hot fire, which is the truth, and the reader feels the heat.

Whitehead Alfred North 1861-1947

The total absence of humour in the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

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