Philip Sidney Quotes

Laughter is the representative of Tragedy, when Tragedy is away.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

I draw from the most pompous people, who are the people that make me laugh the most.

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

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

I think laughter is the best medicine. If you can't laugh at yourself, then you can't laugh at life and the silliness of it all.

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

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

What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh.

A laugh is a terrible weapon.

I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.

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.

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

As to your extraordinary code of laws, I cannot help but laugh.

There's so much humor in serious things sometimes.

There was a lot about the military that I thought was pretty silly, but these cartoons weren't meant to take a poke at anybody or anything. They were meant to make people laugh.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to make fun of yourself and to do it in a way that sort of preserves your dignity but, at the same time, lets you play the theater of the absurd.

Laughter does not please the mighty.

Fear is what makes comedy funny.