Humorists Quotes

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

~ Lenny Bruce

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

~ Josh Billings

He who laughs lasts.

~ Anonymous

We are all here for a spell get all the good laughs you can.

~ Will Rogers

No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.

~ Jean Paul Richter

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

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

One loses so many laughs by not laughing at oneself.

~ Sara Jeannette Duncan

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

~ Sacha Guitry

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.

~ Stephen Leacock

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

~ Robertson Davies