Humor Quotes

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.

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.

I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release.

We don't appreciate the value of humor sometimes.

I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.

My legacy would be that you don't have to give up anything. You can be chic but have a sense of humor, you can be sexy but comfortable, you can be timeless but fresh.

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

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.

I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.

All my jobs have been with food in one way or another since 1948. My parents were in the hotel business, and I just loved the warm hearted people who worked so hard with such good humor.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.

A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.

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