Humor Quotes

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.

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.

Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the client's quality world.

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

I've had a very laughable career and what has seen me through is my sense of humor.

I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.

There are psychological repercussions to illness and we need a little more help to get through the effects not only on the afflicted but on the family. And I think there's even a place for humor in that.

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.

Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.

To this day, I've found that it doesn't matter what a guy looks like if he's really funny. His sense of humor makes him attractive. On the other hand, you don't hear men saying, 'No she's not pretty, but is she ever funny!'

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.