Causes Quote by Aristotle

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness…

— Agnes Repplier

Laughter is like changing a baby's diaper. It doesn't permanently solve any problems, but it makes things more acceptable for a while.

— Anonymous

Even in the things that look most frivolous there has to be the threat of something quite painful to make the comedy work. I…

— Michael Frayn

I often find in doing tragedy, or doing very serious material, that there's a level of anxiety that builds that often leads to laughter…

— Michael Stuhlbarg

Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a…

— David Lynch

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

— Max Beerbohm

“...avoid – like the measles – phony laughter. No, really. If you don’t find it to be funny, don't laugh. More evil and injustice…

— Jenna Brooks

I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean,…

— Joanna Baillie

Yes, when you see for the first time, a great laughter arises in you - the laughter about the whole ridiculousness of your misery,…

— Rajneesh

Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Most experts today subscribe to some variations of the incongruity theory, the idea that humor arises when people discover there's an inconsistency between what…

— Joel Warner

Laughter is a Trojan horse to enter into direct contact with the unconscious, strike the imagination, and trigger visceral reactions.

— Maurizio Cattelan