Joseph Addison Quotes

The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.

A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.

I cannot stand all the people who take themselves very seriously, who cannot just laugh at themselves.

The whole character of Super Dave is a takeoff on people who pontificate. So one thing I never want to do is pontificate why this works, why this is funny. I have no idea what the appeal is. All we are trying to do is make people have a good time and laugh.

The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.

If you can really laugh at yourself loud and hard every time you fall, people will think you're drunk.

But I don't distinguish between being laughed with, and laughed at. I'll take either.

Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.

I think that certain things are funny and certain things are okay to make fun of - including myself.

It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.

Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.

I wake up every morning, look in the mirror and ask, 'Am I a sex symbol?' Then I go back to bed again. It's stupid to think that way.

Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know.

Okay, sense of humor: plus one. Being able to laugh at yourself: plus one. Being able to laugh at other people without being mean: plus one. Vanity: minus one.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

In England, you laugh at yourselves; in France, we laugh at others.

I think those that are holier-than-thou don't make jokes. They take themselves too seriously and Peeta doesn't take himself too seriously. This is what I believe in and I'm comfortable with that and I can make a joke here and there.

Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.

People laugh at me, and that's fine. I laugh at myself, too.

'Man Down' is not a serious study of the human condition: it is a balls-out attempt at making people laugh. So nobody in the show can afford to cling on to any vanity, because we're always going to push the humiliation levels.

Nobody likes me,” he concluded at the tail end of a ten-minute pity fest. “Can’t imagine why,” Quinn murmured. I turned my snort of laughter into a fake cough, which was an embarrassingly feeble attempt at subterfuge when you consider the fact that I didn’t have any lungs.

Many people will laugh at the drop of a hat, especially if the man is still in it.

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

In comedy, falling means laughter. You can take something sacred and make it silly. The more sacred it is, the funnier it is. It has a bigger drop to fall.