Quotes about humor

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  1. Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing.

  2. No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.

  3. The toad, without which no garden would be complete.

  4. She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook.

  5. Lettuce is like conversation: it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

  6. The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

  7. What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back,—with a hinge in it.

  8. If you have any answers, We will be glad to provide full and detailed questions.

  9. "He [Hegel] is perfect... Unlike Kant, who makes sense only in German, this man doesn't make sense in any language.

  10. Correctly formulated, the Law [of Fives] is: All phenomena are directly or indirectly related to the number five, and this relationship can always be demonstrated, given enough ingenuity on the part of the demonstrator.

  11. Cannibals are no less dull than Englishmen.

  12. If India had a Latin version of the American motto E Pluribus Unum, it would be E Pluribus Pluribum.