Start your day right with a quick read through some of these quotes about enjoying a few minutes of humour in your life.
Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell. – Will Cuppy
The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. – Søren Kierkegaard
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. – Francis Bacon
Not living in fear is a great gift, because certainly these days we do it so much. And do you know what I like about comedy? You can’t laugh and be afraid at the same time — of anything. If you’re laughing, I defy you to be afraid. – Stephen Colbert
I’m struck by how laughter connects you with people. It’s almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you’re just howling with laughter. Laughter is a force for democracy. – John Cleese
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
Let me assure you that the humourless as a bunch don’t just not know what’s funny, they don’t know what’s serious. They have no common sense, either, and shouldn’t be trusted with anything. – Martin Amis
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God. – Karl Barth
Comedy is tragedy plus time. – Carol Burnett
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die. – Mel Brooks
A joke’s a very serious thing. – Charles Churchill, The Ghost
If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And, if I can persuade you to laugh at a particular point that I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge it as true. – John Cleese
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