"Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity."

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

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"The secret to humor is surprise."

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"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."

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"Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is."

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"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road."

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"We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers."

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"We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him."

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"Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain."

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"Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth."

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"Humor is just another defense against the universe."

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"A rich man's joke is always funny."

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"All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover."

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"The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds."

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"Comedy is a tragedy plus time."

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"True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper."

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"In the end, everything is a gag."

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"Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law."

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"People of humor are always in some degree people of genius."

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"Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears."

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"A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth."

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"Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room."

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"The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it."

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"A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections."

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"There is this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means; draw it all out, and hold him to it."

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