Wit is a weapon. Jokes are
a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humour is the pursuit of
a gentle grin, usually in solitude.
Frank Muir (b. 1920), British
humorist, writer.
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered
in tranquility.
James Thurber (1894-1961),
U.S. humorist,
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To appreciate nonsense requires
a serious interest in life.
Gelett Burgess (1866-1951),
U.S. humorist
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Humor, a good sense of it,
is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths
to prove it. Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist
in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists
in the room will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke.
Garrison Keillor (b. 1942),
U.S. writer.
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Witticism.
A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine
is pleased to call a “joke.”
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914),
U.S. author. The Devil’s Dictionary .
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