Famous Quotes About - humor

  • A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it. ... Don Herold {view}
  • A joke is a very serious thing. ... Winston Churchill {view}
  • A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me. ... Chevy Chase {view}
  • A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road. ... Henry Ward Beecher {view}
  • A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself. ... Doug Larson {view}
  • A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles. ... Mignon McLaughlin {view}
  • A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself. ... Clifton Paul Fadiman {view}
  • A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life. ... Hugh Sidey {view}
  • A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself. ... Jessamyn West {view}
  • A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. ... William Arthur Ward {view}
  • Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse. ... Groucho Marx {view}
  • All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it. ... Fred Allen {view}
  • Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. ... E. B. White {view}
  • Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end. ... Sid Caesar {view}
  • Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. ... Peter Ustinov {view}
  • Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile. ... J. B. Priestley {view}
  • Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. ... William James {view}
  • Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. ... Mark Twain {view}
  • Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time. ... Steven Wright {view}
  • Gags die, humor doesn't. ... Jack Benny {view}
  • Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun. ... Flip Wilson {view}
  • Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges. ... Thomas W. Higginson {view}
  • Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. ... Agnes Repplier {view}
  • Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing. ... Allen Klein {view}
  • Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger. ... Allen Klein {view}
  • Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost. ... James Thurber {view}
  • Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. ... Edward de Bono {view}
  • Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. ... James Thurber {view}
  • Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does. ... Bill Nye {view}
  • Humor is just another defense against the universe. ... Mel Brooks {view}
  • Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it. ... Langston Hughes {view}
  • Humor is mankind's greatest blessing. ... Mark Twain {view}
  • Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn. ... Irvin S. Cobb {view}
  • Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs. ... Christopher Morley {view}
  • Humor is reason gone mad. ... Groucho Marx {view}
  • Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all. ... John Kenneth Galbraith {view}
  • Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth. ... Victor Borge {view}
  • Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. ... Leo Rosten {view}
  • Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. ... Max Eastman {view}
  • I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor. ... Edward Albee {view}
  • I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. ... Frank Howard Clark {view}
  • If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. ... Mahatma Gandhi {view}
  • If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor. ... Jennifer Jones {view}
  • Imagination 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 {view}
  • In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. ... George Herbert {view}
  • Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you. ... Langston Hughes {view}
  • My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing. ... Emo Philips {view}
  • Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear. ... Thomas W. Higginson {view}
  • One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you. ... Larry Gelbart {view}
  • Puns are a form of humor with words. ... Guillermo Cabrera Infante {view}
  • Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. ... W. C. Fields {view}
  • The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense. ... Jacob August Riis {view}
  • The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance. ... Peter De Vries {view}
  • The secret to humor is surprise. ... Aristotle {view}
  • There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor. ... Thomas W. Higginson {view}
  • There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them. ... Robert Benchley {view}
  • This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought. ... Lin Yutang {view}
  • What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor. ... Bern Williams {view}
  • I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. ... Winston Churchill {view}
  • There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable. ... Rufus Wainwright {view}
  • Let the little fairy in you fly! ... Rufus Wainwright {view}
  • The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak. ... Winston Churchill {view}
  • I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's War and Peace everyday. ... Rufus Wainwright {view}
  • The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen. ... Winston Churchill {view}
  • This is it, folks. This is the idea which has kept me virtually unknown for the past 16 years. I have watched my crowds dwindle. I am going nowhere, and nowhere quick, but, those of you who have children, I am sorry to tell you this, but they are not special. Wait! I know some of you are going "what, what?" Let me just clarify: I know YOU think they're special ... ha ha ha! I'm aware of that. I'm just here to tell you, that they're NOT! Ha ha ha ha! Sorry. Did you know that every time a guy comes he comes two-hundred million sperm? One out of TWO-HUNDRED MILLION that load, we're only talking about one load connected: gee, what are the fucking odds? Do you know what that means? I've wiped nations off've my chest with a grey gymsock. ENTIRE CIVILISATIONS HAVE FLAKED AND CRUSTED IN THE HAIR AROUND MY NAVEL! [...] I've tossed universes in my underpants while napping. Boom! A Milkyway shoots into my jockeyshorts: "Unngh ... what's for fucking breakfast?!" ... Bill Hicks {view}
  • Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them. ... Simon Wiesenthal {view}