Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain


Comedy is acting out optimism.
- Robin Williams


Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
- Mark Twain


Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
- Mark Twain


Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.
- Mark Twain


Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
- Aristotle


Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
- Mark Twain


I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.
- Marilyn Monroe


I think it's funny to be delicate with subjects that are explosive.
- Jerry Seinfeld


I'm the comedic girl next door and a lot of fun.
- Jenny McCarthy


If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
- Mahatma Gandhi


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


There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
- Walt Disney


When in doubt, go for the dick joke.
- Robin Williams


[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon-laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution-these can lift at a colossal humbug-push it a little-weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain