Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter but in still smiles which lie far deeper.

Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain comedy and tragedy humor and hurt.

Through humor you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter no matter how painful your situation might be you can survive it.

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

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.

A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic so that came naturally to me.

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything even poverty you can survive it.

You learn timing on the road. You learn structure and how to read an audience. You learn so much about the business of laughter that you can't learn on a set because it's all on you. Sometimes you bomb and you know not to tell that joke again... You just hope people find the humor in the awkwardness.

I hope in my lifetime we can all continue to laugh at ourselves and not put down anyone for what they weigh.

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you and that you will work them water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom till you yourself burst into bloom.

When I came home for the summer after my first year of college I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud - 2 000 miles in a what? Well my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong?

My favorite show is America's Funniest Home Videos. People will get hit on the head and I feel bad cause I'm laughing my head off!

You come to work and you laugh all day you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.

Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come to work and you laugh all day you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.

The appreciative smile the chuckle the soundless mirth so important to the success of comedy cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time that doesn't work for me. I'd just rather sit at home and read or go out to dinner with someone or talk to someone I love or talk to somebody that makes me laugh.

It's never occurred to me to worry about my health or that I'll get old or that people will stop laughing at me.

The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin finds no love no life no laughter no hope and no happiness.

Happiness is no laughing matter.

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

You take away all the other luxuries in life and if you can make someone smile and laugh you have given the most special gift: happiness.