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Friedrich Nietzsche

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

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Sara Jeannette Duncan

One loses so many laughs by not laughing at oneself.

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You can pretend to be serious but you can’t pretend to be witty.

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Robertson Davies

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

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He who laughs lasts.

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If there’s anything I hate it’s the word humorist – I feel like countering with the word seriousist.

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William Shakespeare

A jest’s prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it never in the tongue Of him that makes it.

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Nonsense is an assertion of man’s spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.

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Humour is just another defence against the universe.

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The great humorist forgets himself in his delighted contemplation of other people.

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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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Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

humour, humorists