“Gags die, humor doesn't”
Jack Benny
“It's only funny till someone gets hurt........then it's hilarious”
Tre Cool
“A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.”
Mark Twain
“It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.”
Max Eastman
“Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?”
George Bernard Shaw
“A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.”
Clifton Fadiman
“It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself”
Salvador Dalí
