You can always joke good naturedly a big man, but be sure he is a big man before you joke about him.
Will Rogers
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
W. H. Auden
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Joseph Addison
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.
Lord Chesterfield
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mock not nor jest at anything of importance; break no jests that are sharp or biting; and if you deliver anything witty or pleasant, abstain from laughing thereat yourself.
George Washington
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
I had rather have a fool make me merry than experience make me sad.
William Shakespeare
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Victor Borge
I have found you have a choice: laugh or have high blood pressure.
Fred Smith
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
George Bernard Shaw
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
George Bernard Shaw
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
Oscar Wilde
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