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A gag
In the end, everything is a gag.
Charlie Chaplin
ClownI remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
Charlie Chaplin
Comedy in long-shotLife is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Charlie Chaplin
Everything a contradictionI thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.
Charlie Chaplin
Glimpse inside a human soulIf you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I don't trust themI don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.
Maya Angelou
If I had no sense of humorIf I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Mahatma Gandhi
Imagination and humorImagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Francis Bacon
InsaneIf we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
Robert Frost
Joy's smileJoy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
Victor Hugo
Laughter and good humorThere is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
Charles Dickens
Laughter and painLaughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
Charlie Chaplin
Let old wrinkles comeWith mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
William Shakespeare
Man alone who laughsPerhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Not at all a bad beginningLaughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde
Sunny spiritHumor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.
Mark Twain
The assault of laughterAgainst the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.
Mark Twain
The secret to humorThe secret to humor is surprise.
Aristotle
To make a comedyAll I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Charlie Chaplin
To truly laughTo truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
Charlie Chaplin
ToleranceYou are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
W. Somerset Maugham
Two edgesThe beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Virginia Woolf
Very seriousA joke is a very serious thing.
Winston Churchill
WastedA day without laughter is a day wasted.
Charlie Chaplin
