Humour is reason gone mad

Humour results when society says you can’t scratch certain things in public, but they itch in public. [By: Tom Walsh]

Humour has a way of bringing people together.  It unites people.  In fact, I’m rather serious when I suggest that someone should plant a few whoopee cushions in the United Nations. [By: Ron Dentinger]

Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds.  A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing. [By: William James]

After God created the world, He made man and woman.  Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing, He invented humour. [By: Bill Kelly, "Mordillo"]

If I had no sense of humour, I would long ago have committed suicide. [By: Mahatma Gandhi]

Humour is reason gone mad. [By: Groucho Marx]

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humour to console him for what he is. [By: Francis Bacon]

The kind of humour I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes. [By: William Davis]

There is more logic in humour than in anything else.  Because, you see, humour is truth. [By: Victor Borge, London Times, 3 January 1984]

Humour is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms.  It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humourist.  It is a long, long time between James Thurbers. [By: Leo Rosten]

Above all else: go out with a sense of humour.  It is needed armor.  Joy in one’s heart and some laughter on one’s lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life. [By: Hugh Sidey]