Laughing is the body’s approval of the absurd.

“A joke is a question of mind over manner.”

— Anthony Marais

Humor is a great defense, and an offense too. Usually the recipient isn't too happy about it, but the people around are laughing.

— Robin Williams

You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.

— Tina Fey

I want people to just be paying attention even if they're not necessarily laughing at something, or if it takes them a while to…

— Anthony Jeselnik

When you lose the power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight.

— Jerome Lawrence

Over the past 50 years Bob Hope employed 88 joke writers who supplied him with more than one million gags, and he still couldn't…

— Eddie Murphy

But if people will laugh at my work and keep a sound roof over my head, who am I to complain?

— Billie Burke

We're all basically decent human beings so if 3,000 people are laughing at a joke then it's worth telling.

— Lee Mack

In theater, one of the biggest problems when you're rehearsing comedy over and over again is that you stop laughing at each other.

— Lauren Ashley Carter

The major caveat in all of comedy is that it's all instinctive. There's no true criteria. There is no right or wrong. Ultimately, often…

— Larry Charles

Nothing's funnier to me than laughing at myself.

— Phil McGraw

Laughter is one of the great beacons in life because we don't refract it by gunning it through our intellectual prism. What makes us…

— Dennis Miller

We do not claim that punning is legitimate wit. Wit consists in combination of ideas, punning in combination of words only. We wonder at…

— Harriet Hosmer

I really enjoy making people laugh; I've discovered that's a great technique. That's as powerful as stirring their sorrow, stirring their compassion, because that…

— Max Lucado

“Laugh and grow strong”

— Ignatius of Loyola