HUMOR

Related Subjects: Epigram, Joke, Laughter, Limericks, Merriment, Nonsense, Paradox, Pun, Satire, Wit

1. The humourist's like a man firin' at a target—he doesna ken whether he hits or no till them at the target tells 'im.—J. M. BARRIE, A Window in Thrums
   

2. The sharpest humor these days is the briefest, the most visual.—WHIT BURNETT, The Literary Life & the Hell With It
   

3. True humour 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.—CARLYLE, Richter
   

4. Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?—FRANK M. COLBY, Essays

5. Humour is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse.—W. S. GILBERT, His Excellency
   

6. The sense of humour is the just balance of all the faculties of man, the best security against the pride of knowledge and the conceits of the imagination, the strongest inducement to submit with a wise and pious patience to the vicissitudes of human existence.—R. M. MILNES, Memoir of Thomas Hood
   

7. Lift up one hand to heaven and thank your stars if they have given you the proper sense to enable you to appreciate the inconceivably droll situations in which we catch our fellow creatures.—SIR WILLIAM OSLER, Life of Sir William Osler
   

8. Democratic humour is the spleen of the normal in the presence of the abnormal.—J. C. POWYS, In Defence of Sensuality
   

9. He must not laugh at his own wheeze:
   A snuff box has no right to sneeze.—KEITH PRESTON, The Humorist
   

10. There's the humour of it.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merry Wives of Windsor
    

11. If a person desires to be a humorist it is necessary that the people around him shall be at least as wise as he is, otherwise, his humor will not be comprehended.—JAMES STEPHENS, The Demi-Gods
    

12. Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.—MARK TWAIN