Amusing Quote by Nikolai Gogol

It's a barrel of laughs, isn't it? It makes The Day After look like friggin'...insert name of cheerful thing here. It was one of…

— Charlie Brooker

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers…

— Malcolm De Chazal

To take a gloomy view of life is not part of my philosophy; to laugh at the idiocies of my fellow creatures is. However,…

— Noel Coward

'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts.

— John Ortberg

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The…

— Lewis Carroll

It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with…

— Lydia Sigourney

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

— Alexander Pope

Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh, instead of…

— William Ellery Channing

“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

There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams and stamps its feet,…

— Mervyn Peake

Humor is in fact an essential element in the mirth of creation. We can see how, in many matters in our lives, God wants…

— Pope Benedict XVI