Humor Quotes

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

I don't know if my sense of humor goes over Americans' heads.

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.

The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.

Gags die, humor doesn't.

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.

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

It's continuously humbling to work hard, you know? As long as you've got a good work ethic and a sense of humor, I don't think anybody can become too much of an egoist under those circumstances.

I have a very silly sense of humor. I've never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the bottom of their shoe.

The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

Humor is healing.

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.

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

Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.

Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

I have a very dark sense of humor.

If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.

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.

And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.

I think Canadian humor is a little less broad than American humor.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road.

A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage.

I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can't read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.