Humour

"Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully." Max Eastman (American poet and political activist, 1883-1969)

"Good jests ought to bite like lambs, not dogs: they should cut, not wound." Charles II (British monarch, 1630-85)

"Humor is a rubber sword. It allows you to make a point without drawing blood." Mary Hirsch (teacher of humourous writing, DOB unknown)

"Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it." E. B. White (American humorist, 1899-1985)

"The most *wasted*dull*productive* of all days is one without laughter." E. E. Cummings (American poet, 1894-1962)

"Humor is reason gone mad." Groucho Marx (American film comedian, 1890-1977)

"The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven." Mark Twain (American writer, 1835-1910)

"I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it." Frank A. Clark (American lawyer and politician, 1860-1936)

"Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them." Simon Wiesenthal (Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor, 1908-2005)

"Comedy is simply *a funny*another*my* way of being serious." Peter Ustinov (British actor, 1921-2004)

"Every survival kit should include a sense of humor." anonymous

"The best ideas come *as jokes.*in your sleep.*when you least expect.* Make your thinking as funny as possible." David Ogilvy (advertising executive, 1911–99)

"Humor is mankind's greatest blessing." Mark Twain (American writer, 1835-1910)

"Humor is just another defense against the universe." Mel Brooks (American film director and actor, 1926-)

"The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense." Jacob August Riis (Danish-American social reformer, 1849-1914)

"I don't *trust anyone*like a person*know a judge* who doesn't laugh." Maya Angelou (American writer, 1928-)

"Humor is the good natured side of a truth." Mark Twain (American writer, 1835-1910)

"The marvellous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing." Ronnie Barker (English comedian, 1929-2005)

"Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall." Alan Bennett (English dramatist and actor, 1934-)

"When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression." Bill Bryson (American travel writer, 1951-)

"Without humour you cannot run a *sweetie-shop*race*green grocers* let alone a nation." John Buchan (Scottish novelist, 1875-1940)

"A joke's a very serious thing." Charles Churchill (English poet, 1731-64)

"A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections." George Eliot (English novelist, 1819-80)

"What do you mean, funny? Funny-peculiar or funny ha-ha?" Ian Hay (Scottish novelist and dramatist, 1876-1952)

"The only way to amuse *some people*the monarch*me* is to slip and fall on an icy pavement." E. W. Howe (American novelist and editor, 1853-1937)

"Satire is a lesson; parody is a game." Vladimir Nabokov (Russian novelist, 1899-1977)

"That's the Irish people all over – they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke." Sean O'Casey (Irish dramatist, 1880-1964)

"Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else." Will Rogers (American actor and humorist, 1879-1935)

"For every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies." Laurence Sterne (English novelist, 1713-68)

"It would be a sad reflection on any satirical programme if no one ended up taking offence at some point." Meera Syal (British actress and writer, 1963-)

"Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity." James Thurber (American humorist, 1894-1961)

"Laughter would be bereaved if *snobbery*I*my cat* died." Peter Ustinov (British actor, director, and writer, 1921-2004)