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Having a sense of humour is really key. You have to have a sense of humour with these things and I've just tried to remain who I am. My life has changed. It's changed in the fact that I don't have the freedoms I did before, but I've also got a huge amount of other freedoms that came along with it.

Human humour often consists of pretending to wish something does not really wish.

Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it.

Humour is God's special gift to humanity. Handy, because it turns out to be necessary.

Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously; wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more or less ill-nature.

Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.

Humour ended up being a really useful skill when it came time to be an international television celebrity.

Humour is the best way to make the unbearable bearable.

Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.

I am in fear, there is no humour left in public life because of this fear.

HOMŒOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.

I definitely try to mix humour into anything I do, even if it is into a drama.

HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous.

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you open to my ideas

If you don't have humour, then you may as well nail the coffin lid down now.

I guess a lot of police keep their sanity by developing black humour.

I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.

If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!

I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour.

I love a girl with a good sense of humour, who is confident but who has a sweetness to her - that melts my heart.

I have a humorous side but these days humour can be a risky thing.

I love Andre 3000 from OutKast. I think we'd complement each other, but I'm hoping he's got a good sense of humour.

I'm a big fan of shock value humour and I find myself being most comfortable when I make other people uncomfortable. Is that sick of me? I really like it.

Inevitably you're going to be delayed somewhere. Always have a book. Always have a movie. Always have a notebook. And then always have a sense of humour.

I love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.

I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.

I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.

It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.

Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to learn how to live; you have to have a sense of humour.

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

My opponent is Short and the match will be short.

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.

Nowadays tournaments are for nurseries. Look at those kiddies.

Now I have the pawn and the compensation.

Once I asked Teichman what he thought of Bird's chess: "Same as his health," he replied, "always alternating between being dangerously ill and dangerously well.

Only six need be attempted.

Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.

Sure, there's no 'i' in team, but there is an 'm' and an 'e'.

In one sense, you put a lot of yourself into a small press - it's your personal tastes that are on the line - so when criticism is levelled it can feel personal. But, on the other hand, it can be very welcome and necessary. You're never entirely impervious, and one of the main benefits of being a small operation is that you can change the way you do things quickly in response to criticism. In all instances it pays to have a sense of humour and perspective.

I think the key attributes for a good speaker are someone that's articulate and someone that puts a fair amount of humour into what they do.

I've always been an optimist and I believe laughter is a wonderful thing

Laughter is more serious than tears.

One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.

Sometimes strident, often tender, never afraid and seldom without humour, Desmond Tutu's voice will always be the voice of the voiceless.

The best thing about humour is that it shows people they are not alone.

The comedy gods are smiling on me tonight.

The humour of Dostoievsky is the humour of a barloafer who ties a kettle to a dog's tail.

When you absolutely don't know what to do anymore, it is time to panic

There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.

The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.