The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over, and showing it principally in one spot.
He who laughs, lasts.
We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.
No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
One loses so many laughs by not laughing at oneself.
You can pretend to be serious, but you can't pretend to be witty.
Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it.
The love of truth lies at the root of much humour.
