Humor Quotes

This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.

I love Sell Out, I think it's great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. It's got humor, great songs, irony.

Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.

I really love middle-grade. Middle-grade books have a little more of a magical, light-hearted feel. You can be a little bit more quirky, you can have a little more humor. It doesn't get so dark and deep.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.

I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor.

Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny.

People who know me know I have a sense of humor that can really push the envelope.

I want someone who can keep me on my toes, has a good sense of humor and a good heart.

Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.

I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.

I will say that as I get older and calmer and quieter in my own self, the one quality in a woman that I find more and more attractive is kindness. A sense of adventure and humor is important too, but I truly find kindness and consideration for others to be the most attractive thing in anyone.

It's great to be able to connect parents with children both emotionally and through humor. I look forward to exploring family entertainment once again and examining the specifics of our day-to-day lives against the backdrop of an extraordinary adventure.

What's great about the geek spirit is that life never seems to stop us, and they never seem to kill our enthusiasm, our optimism and our hunger to experience the world. We keep our sense of humor, we protect our dignity, we talk to our friends about the experience and then we start again fresh the very next day.

Women's humor seems to be a little more supportive. It's just kind of trying to make the other one laugh through funny voices and kind of talking about other people. I respond to that. I feel less like I'm going to get beat up in a room full of women than I do in a room full of guys.

I don't think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don't want to be a part of a show where it's mostly about coming up with the jokes.

I realized women and humor were linked very closely.

The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren't quite sure if they liked me and they didn't know whether or not that I was sensitive.

So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.

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.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

The quickest way to defuse fear or insecurity or anger is usually humor. I think comics figure that out quickly, and, once you figure it out, you think, 'Hey, if I can do this and get paid, that would be kind of cool.'

If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.

Humor is healing.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.

The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.

And you know, whether it's drama or comedy, the best work is based on truth. It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully, because that's where the humor comes from. So it's not that difficult to cross over.

Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

Puns are a form of humor with words.

Solutions-oriented campaigning with a little passion and a little humor; I think that will go a long way. I think people are desperate for it.

Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.

I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Always have a sense of humor about life - you'll need it - but always be courteous to boot.

I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computer and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.

I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.

Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.

I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don't know if he had such a sense of humor.

You may not like the humor, but that is why every radio has an on-off button.

I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.

We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.

A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.

People with no humor, they're outta my life.

Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.

We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.

I'm a humor writer, so I don't always present myself in the best light.

I reread Mesrine's book every year because the way the story is told is fascinating. Today, we don't have gangsters like Mesrine - he had humor.

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

I quite like dark humor.

I want to have fun. Life ain't no dress rehearsal. I want to have fun. I'm a comedian; I ain't no politician. So everything I do is with humor, with love.

Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.

I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.

I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves.

Humor is reason gone mad.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.