Humour and laughter quotes

Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing.
William James

Through humour, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby

Humour is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
Christopher Morley

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

Humour is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Roman Gary

Honest good humour is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.
Washington Irving

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.
Gordon W. Allport

The kind of humour I like is that which makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes.
William Davis

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Victor Borge

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
Charlie Chaplin