Humor Quotes

The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons.

I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

The combination of landing the biggest interview of my career and having a drill in my back reminds me that God only gives us what we can handle and that it helps to have a good sense of humor when we run smack into the absurdity of life.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable.

My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.

I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.

I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.

I'll do humor about myself, I'll poke fun and everything, but that's me and I can do it to me. I think it's cruel to do it to somebody else.

Democratic politicians have disliked things I've written, Republican politicians... if they all love you, you might as well be driving a Good Humor truck.

I can't not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.

I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.

When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.

I think in life, the sense of humor and comedy always exists.

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.

Advertisers also know that humor can help bond us to their product.

For the most part, comedians are pretty friendly with each other. They always say they badmouth each other, but most of the time, they're friends. We're the only ones that can really stand our type of humor.

A boy is naturally full of humor.

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.

An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act; if it weren't, more women would do it.

Humor can be one of our best survival tools.

A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.