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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks (b. 1926) American comedic actor, writer, producer [b. Melvyn Kaminsky]
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Look, I really don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive, you’ve got to flap your arms and legs, you’ve got to jump around a lot, you’ve got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.

Mel Brooks (b. 1926) American comedic actor, writer, producer [b. Melvyn Kaminsky]
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MONGO: Mongo only pawn in game of life.

Mel Brooks (b. 1926) American comedic actor, writer, producer [b. Melvyn Kaminsky]
Blazing Saddles (1974)
 
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Hope for the best.
Expect the worst.
The world’s a stage.
We’re unrehearsed.

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Mel Brooks (b. 1926) American comedic actor, writer, producer [b. Melvyn Kaminsky]
The Twelve Chairs, “Hope for the Best, Expect the Worst” (1970)
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(Source (Audio)). More information on composition of the song here and here.

See also Shakespeare and O'Casey.
 
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Tragedy is if I cut my finger. Comedy is if you walk into an open sewer and die.

Mel Brooks (b. 1926) American comedic actor, writer, producer [b. Melvyn Kaminsky]
Quoted (1978-10-30) in Kenneth Tynan, “Frolics and Detours of a Short Hebrew Man,” New Yorker
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See Hazlitt (1829).
 
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