“Wit is educated insolence.”
Aristotle

“Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.”
Peter Ustinov

“I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humour.”
Lord Nelson

“The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.”
Mark Twain

“Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.”
W.C. Fields

“You can pretend to be serious; you can’t pretend to be witty.”
Sacha Guitry

“If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.”
Clarence Darrow

“Comedy is tragedy – plus time.”
Carol Burnet

Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.
Simon Wiesenthal

There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.
Rufus Wainwright

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
E. M. Forster

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
Anthony Burgess