To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?
Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.
They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.
An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.
He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony.