Deities Quote by Pliny the Elder

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

— Agnes Repplier

“Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things…one of the beginnings of the human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority,…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The whole attitude of 'man against the world', of man as a 'world-negating' principle, of a man as the measure of the value of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions…

— Charles Robert Maturin

“A saving grace of the human condition (if I may phrase it like that) is a sense of humor. Many writers and witnesses, guessing…

— Christopher Hitchens

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

— Oscar Wilde

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.

— Christopher Hitchens

God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries to pop…

— L. Ron Hubbard

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

This world is a vaporous jest at best, Tossed off by the gods in laughter, And a cruel attempt at wit were it, If…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust?

— Sylvia Plath

“the definition of humanness is the opportunity to marvel at the majesty of creation”

— John Green