Humor Quotes

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

Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

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

If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it's a sense of humor. If you've got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive.

It's hard to force creativity and humor.

I don't have a very quick sense of humor.

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.

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.

I have a dark sense of humor.

With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.

It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.

One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

Bathroom humor, fart, and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It's a pretty easy audience, and that's been around for ages.

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

I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character.

I love doing comedy. You don't get many good comedy scripts. They're rare. But, I do love playing comedy. Even in drama, I like to try to find the humor because I think it's very human.

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

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

Some people say my humor focuses too much on stereotypes. It doesn't. It focuses on facts.

Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.