275 Quotations with Humor.
- 21. Ambrose Bierce: JESTER, n. An officer formerly attached to a king's household, whose business it ...

- 22. Ambrose Bierce: MINSTREL, adj. Formerly a poet, singer or musician; now a nigger with a color le ...

- 23. Ambrose Bierce: NOSE, n. The extreme outpost of the face. From the circumstance that great conqu ...

- 24. Ambrose Bierce: PANTALOONS, n. A nether habiliment of the adult civilized male. The garment is t ...

- 25. Ambrose Bierce: PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of ...

- 26. Ambrose Bierce: RAREBIT, n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that i ...

- 27. Ambrose Bierce: READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a ...

- 28. Ambrose Bierce: SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and folli ...

- 29. Ambrose Bierce: SHERIFF, n. In America the chief executive office of a country, whose most chara ...

- 30. Ambrose Bierce: WIDOW, n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorous ...

- 31. Ambrose Bierce: WIT, n. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cooker ...

- 32. Ambrose Bierce: ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous i ...

- 33. Anton Chekhov: People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests th ...

- 34. E.B. White: Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutel ...

- 35. W.S. Gilbert: Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse.

- 36. Mary Hirsch: Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.

- 37. Claude Roy: Love is an attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-detachment -- a w ...

- 38. Mark Twain: Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irri ...

- 39. Robert Benchley: Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

- 40. Mel Brooks: Humor is just another defense against the universe.

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