Top 595 Humor Quotes

Here we have the best Humor Quotes from famous authors such as Samuel Richardson, Ashnikko, William Makepeace Thackeray, Zachary Knighton, Kesha. Find the perfect quotation from our collection.

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Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

Everyone needs an escape, whether that is through music or humor. My personal escape is through both of those things so I thought why not combine them? But not in a cringe way, I don’t want to make parody songs. I just want my music to have a humorous edge to it.

Ashnikko
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

Big Bang Theory’ is not my kind of show. It’s not my humor. I don’t like multicam comedies. I don’t want an audience to tell me when to laugh.

Zachary Knighton
You have to have a sense of humor about life to get through it.

Ontologically, chocolate raises profoundly disturbing questions: Does not chocolate offer natural revelation of the goodness of the Creator just as chilies disclose a divine sense of humor? Is the human born with an innate longing for chocolate? Does the notion of chocolate preclude the concept of free will?

David Augsburger
He was just trying to tease me – I knew that later – but he said he’d have to leave because it wasn’t fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.

What’s great about the geek spirit is that life never seems to stop us, and they never seem to kill our enthusiasm, our optimism and our hunger to experience the world. We keep our sense of humor, we protect our dignity, we talk to our friends about the experience and then we start again fresh the very next day.

I think Damien Hirst is hilarious. And I think he’s a true artist. He’s not hilarious first; I think he is a real artist, and I also think he’s got an amazing sense of humor.

But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They’re all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives.

While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.

Randy Forbes
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

Max Eastman
Any good humor is sophomoric. ‘Sophomoric’ is the liberal word for funny.

Michael O’Donoghue
We are not actually in charge of life, yet behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact is quite a hard one. The ridiculousness of our pomposity and presumption can only result in anger or humor.

Billy Childish
Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.

Mary Kay Blakely
The real important things are kindness and a sense of humor. I’ve been fortunate to have dated and could have easily married women who have those qualities, and time and circumstances didn’t work out. Timing plays a big part.

I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.

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.

Enid Bagnold
Humor is this great equalizer. It gets people’s defenses down, and once they’re down, you can discuss some really difficult topics.

I think it’s part of the responsibility of an artist to shock, to upset, to make people think differently, and to surprise people. And that’s where the good humor is, if there’s a surprise and there’s something unexpected. Something that’s not normal, not in the realm of general living expectations.

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.

My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.

We do not take humor seriously enough.

I’m able to see humor in a lot of things.

George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It’s taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.

Bill Cosby
Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.

Women respond to comfort and a sense of humor. I was always able to make them laugh, so that helps a lot.

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

There’s a certain type of character that you can’t help but come in contact with growing up and living in Brooklyn and Long Island. A certain mixture of moxie, heart, and a wise guy sense of humor.

I’m not for gratuitous nudity, but if there’s humor, I don’t have a problem.

I find any sort of acting that doesn’t have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring.

Andrew Scott
Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

They say you don’t want to meet your heroes, but those two guys, you do want to meet them, because they do not disappoint. Walken has this amazing sense of humor, and Pacino is like just a sweetheart of a guy.

I think the humor, when applied in the right amount, only serves to intensify the other emotions in a given song; it highlights them, makes them stand out.

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

I want to be taken seriously as the type of musician that plays stuff like an electric rake. I mean, how seriously do you take someone like Spike Jones? They take him pretty seriously – a really good musician who made a great contribution in terms of humor, which is part of what I try to do too.

Eugene Chadbourne
I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone‘s eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.

What we’ve discovered is that Americans seem to love our saucy humor.

Benny Hill
Uncle Fester always intrigued me. I certainly always enjoyed his kind of humor. He’s just full of mischief in a kind of macabre way. I don’t see anything twisted about it. It’s sort of ridiculous and wacky. It’s sort of fun.

If someone is genuine, compassionate and kind, that is a turn-on. A sense of humor is a huge turn on, and that goes hand in hand with intelligence.

I’m a humor writer, so I don’t always present myself in the best light.

Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better – at least for the purposes of social discourse.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Since the very beginning, Emeril’s had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him.

As people, we’re generally optimistic, no matter how disabled our lives are, and we find the humor in the darkest situations.

Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing‘s funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable.

My humor isn’t meant to be mean or hurt anyone. But it’s to make them uncomfortable and laugh. I like making people feel a different range of emotions. I like to make people a bit confused.

Charlyne Yi
Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. It’s a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.

Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor.

Herb Caen
My wife is Swedish, so I’m familiar with the Scandinavian kind of odd humor. It’s very dark and very deadpan.

I’ve never met a person who has more integrity than my husband. I respect that. There’s his humor and intelligence, too, and he’s really cute, all those things – but if you don’t respect your partner, you’ll get sick of him.

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays – even great tragedies – have enormous humor in them.

Working on newspapers, you’re writing to a certain length, often very brief pieces; you tend to look for easy forms of humor – women can’t drive, things like that. That’s about the level of a lot of newspaper humor. It becomes a form of laziness.

Sometimes I used to think to myself, ‘Have I lost a sense of humor?’ but I don’t think that I have. I think one can be as snarky and sarcastic as lots of people, but I have never found that it makes me particularly happy.

Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It’s the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children‘s books.

Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.

Back in 2004, Kellie Overbey handed me her play ‘Girl Talk’ to read. I fell in love with her brutally delicious humor and the fearlessly deft way in which she drew her characters. They jumped off the page and begged me to give them a space in which to stomp around.

People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.

I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

A lesson taught with humor is a lesson retained.

My favorite kind of humor is basically, if it was happening to you, it wouldn’t be funny, but to observe it, it’s hilarious.

Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.

Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don’t judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.

I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card.

It’s amazing how these little guys can say things that a mortal human could never get away with. There’s some sort of unspoken license… when outlandish things come out of an inanimate object, somehow it equals humor.

Humor does not diminish the pain – it makes the space around it get bigger.

Humor is so important to the American scene throughout history.

I was a little shocked at how adult some of the humor was, because I was never that into animation before and when I watched ‘Shrek’ I really laughed out loud.

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

The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.

Arthur Hailey
I have such a respect for comedy. It’s a lot harder than doing drama, in my opinion; you have to have sort of an innate sense of humor. There are rules to comedy you can learn. But ultimately, it really does require a certain point of view on the world, and that really does appeal to me.

I think that what comes through in Chicago humor is the affection. Even though you’re poking fun at someone or something, there’s still an affection for it.

Okay, sense of humor: plus one. Being able to laugh at yourself: plus one. Being able to laugh at other people without being mean: plus one. Vanity: minus one.

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

My father was a very strong male figure to me as a child. He was very dashing, had a wonderful sense of humor and was romantically handsome in the Scott Fitzgerald genre.

I read the script and decide if a particular character looks fun to play. I look for complexity and a sense of humor. Those are crucial, real things to life.

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

I talk about race and culture, and that’s what my fans respond to. If you grew up in an environment where race and culture were never an issue for you, or where you don’t see the humor in our so-called differences, then you might not respond to what I’m doing.

God has a most wicked sense of humor.

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

Wavy Gravy
Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutionary at the time not only because it starred a female, but also because it was so emotionally honest about all the conflicting feelings many women had in 1976.

The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.

Art Modell was a visionary, a deal-maker and a friend. And he possessed a marvelous sense of humor.

Steve Tisch
Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

I think I have always had a little humor.

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

Agnes Repplier
Gags die, humor doesn’t.

Jack Benny
Blacks had survived every form of human debasement with ingenuity, self-reliance, a deep and ironic humor, a capacity for self-reinvention and a heroic fortitude. But we had no experience of wide-open freedom.

Both conservatives and liberals watchParks and Recreation,’ and they each think the show is for them, which is really cool. ‘SNL‘ was totally different. It was exciting because everyone was paying attention. Political humor works when people know what you’re talking about.

People are wired for lots of things. We’re wired for novelty. We’re wired for humor. We’re wired for new pieces of information that surprise us in some way or add value to our lives. We’re wired for fear.

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

Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.

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.

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

I have a really dark, rich, thick sense of humor.

Inga Muscio
Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.

I don’t have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor shelf at Barnes & Noble – it is almost insignificant.

There’s such an odd, eclectic group of people that make up the town of Plymouth, New Hampshire. I don’t think I could avoid not coming out of there with a pretty good sense of humor.

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.

Francois Truff

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I think God has a sense of humor, and the way my lessons come from God is very funny. I have to laugh at myself even if it’s a tough lesson.

Yvette Nicole Brown
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.

Joe Barbera’s s always complaining that he can’t get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You’ve got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?

Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor.

Avi Arad
Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.

Christina Hoff Sommers is a self-identified feminist and registered Democrat with a Ph.D. in philosophy and a wicked sense of humor.

Sometimes a scene may be about one thing, and it may end up still being about that, but the emotionality of it comes from somewhere else, or the humor of it comes from somewhere else, and it gives it that real-life quality.

Tony and I had a good on and off screen relationship, we are two very different people, but we did share a sense of humor, we now live in different parts of the world but when we find ourselves in the same place it is more or less as if there had been no years in between.

I’m just very amused by five-year-old humor.

I don’t really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.

I think ‘Country Girl’ is one song that can veer into country or hip-hop or rap. You can listen to it and enjoy the humor and the fun in it.

I think everyone is born with humor, but your life can beat it out of you, sadly, or you can be lucky enough to grow up in it.

I think it’s important to find humor anywhere you can. In real life, with the darkest, scariest, most intense moments, if you can find something funny, that’s good.

Well, the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning – it’s a man or a woman without a sense of humor.

My dad was a very funny man – he’s the one who taught me life would be awfully hard without humor! I’m sure his Irish wit in some way influenced my decision to become an actress.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

There’s not a lot of other stuff I admire about his content, but there’s something about Howard Stern and his perseverance in a very difficult industry. He does tickle me in certain ways with humor.

Ashleigh Banfield
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

Puns are a form of humor with words.

We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator… Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or ‘stage’ Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

I’ve heard too many times where people say that I’m this ultra-serious guy. In truth, I’ve got an extremely absurd sense of humor. I thrive on the absurd – I love it.

The people I mixed with in Monaco didn’t relate to my South African mentality or humor… Although I have met some wonderful people since I’ve been living in Monaco, I regard them all as acquaintances. I only have two people I consider friends here.

Charlene Princess of Monaco
Racial humor was about 35% of my act when I first started. But I realized that it was a crutch. What brought it home was when another comedian said to me, ‘If you changed color tomorrow, you wouldn’t have any material.’ He meant it as a put-down, but I took it as a challenge.

Bill Cosby
When I was young, my favorite picture book was ‘Fletcher and Zenobia,’ written by Edward Gorey and illustrated by Victoria Chess. It’s long out of print now, but its mix of macabre humor and 1960s psychedelia made it a perfect children’s book for the times.

I look at things logically. The humor I do is to go from A to B to C to D, and F is the funny.

Ron Shock
When I was doing research on the M.C.s and spending time with these cats, one of the things that struck me and made me realize that I could deliver this world to an audience was their really dark and acute sense of humor.

Every time I’ve done comedy in, like, traditional comedy clubs, there’s always these comedians that do really well with audiences but that the other comedians hate because they’re just, you know, doing kind of cheap stuff like dancing around or doing, like, very kind of base sex humor a lot, and stuff like that.

My mother was Irish; she had this great sense of humor, and both my parents loved films. There was a very vibrant discourse about politics and everything that was going on in the world where I grew up. So I was genetically predisposed to go into the performing arts.

Martin Donovan
On April 3, 2014, Jane Goodall turned 80. The iconic blond ponytail has gone gray, but the sparkle of intelligence, sly humor, and fierce dedication still shines from her hazel eyes.

David Quammen
When I look at a lot of older stuff that I’ve written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard.

I don’t think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don’t want to be a part of a show where it’s mostly about coming up with the jokes.

I like George Carlin’s jokes. I like his humor. He’s one of my heroes, and I like what he did with talking about everyday things.

Professional comedians, surprisingly, have a lack of humor. They’re insensitive to the insanity of our times.

Mort Sahl
Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.

I’m going to do a lot of weird stuff that’s not going to be like me prancing around like an insane 12-year-old. I showed everybody that side of me and I think it’s time to do different stuff, even when it comes down to the type of humor. I want to do some drier, weirder stuff.

Andy Milonakis
A lot about Congress is about forming good working relationships with people, and humor can really help you do that.

Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep.

Nobody enjoys the ‘little show about nothing’ humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.

Why anybody gets my sense of humor I never know, but I do know that when they do, I keep them as close as I possibly can.

The New Zealand sense of humor is tough and realistic. Jokes are not surreal; they are about life and death and tough decisions.

As far as humor goes, I’ve always been a very insecure person and I’ve always wanted to be liked.

I’ve always littered my songs with jokes. You might need to dig a little deeper to find the humor, but I would totally object to being some kind of distraught personality. I’ve never tried to attach myself to that.

If you watch most of the stuff on TV and in movies, it’s usually put-down humor. It’s like somebody being mean or cynical or thoughtless to another person. I never wanted to be that type of comedian.

However, frat-boy humor is funny and it always will be.

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

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.

In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having socially appropriate responses, having people denying the drama by failing to react to it, and that’s a really classic form of humor.

I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What’s life without a sense of humor?

Because I was a television writer for many years, I write very conversationally. I put things straight, and with a lot of humor.

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.

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 never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing.

Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I am here to have fun here with my work.

We’re starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations, and you can also have your own style, personality and sense of humor, because now we’re allowed to.

Lisa Guerrero
I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic‘s best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he’s doing is easy is an occupational hazard.

My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation.

The people in New York – their humor is on a level that goes, uh, very deep, you know?

Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.

He has such a patronizing tone and manner, and such a sarcastic sense of humor. I found him rather brutal, a kind of elegant brutality which appealed. No, I think he came pretty much off the page.

As a kid, I loved ‘Godot’ because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, it’s much more resonant.

I couldn’t really take a girl from Berlin to live in Leeds. I love it here. I miss the Yorkshire sense of humor and things like bitter and Yorkshire puddings, but I can still get my hands on salt ‘n’ vinegar crisps.

Sam Riley
I don’t think you can define how you acquire your imagination any more than you can define why one person has a sense of humor and another doesn’t. But I certainly would lean to the side that says all those solitary hours of daydreaming were a kind of training for poetry.

James Tate
It’s great to be able to connect parents with children both emotionally and through humor. I look forward to exploring family entertainment once again and examining the specifics of our day-to-day lives against the backdrop of an extraordinary adventure.

But because it was able to balance that kind of humor with a sweet story and characters you really rooted for and also got across the girls’ point of view, I’ve heard nothing but great things from younger and older females as well.

Jason Biggs
SpongeBob is a complete innocent – not an idiot. SpongeBob never fully realizes how stupid Patrick is. They’re whipping themselves up into situations – that’s always where the humor comes from.

When I play a game, I want to play, not necessarily laugh. If you try to make me laugh at the expense of interactivity, then you’ve just created another funny game that isn’t very fun. The videogame medium itself is a terrible place for complicated humor, drama, and character development.

Doug TenNapel
Humor, humility, and, of course, honesty, all are qualities that work in public and cultural diplomacy.

Cynthia P Schneider
I think the Canadian sense of humor is dryer than America’s and juicier than Britain‘s. I think it’s a cross between the two of them, really.

Everybody I know who is funny, it’s in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don’t like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.

With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.

Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there’s humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.

Humor is reason gone mad.

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.

If you look at the game and everything, it’s not quite like looking at an animated film, because that’s total character. This, this is really movement, but it’s got funny little things if you look for the humor. They’re actually getting to the character.

I just try to write what I think would really happen, and with grief and tragedy, there are these naturally occurring moments of levity and humor and absurdity. I think that’s what life is really like. Sadness gets interrupted, and happiness gets interrupted.

Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.

Humor is laughing at what you haven‘t got when you ought to have it.

I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, they’re going to love one book. People who read my books for the mystery, they might not like that book quite as much.

I can’t not put humor in a book.

Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery.

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it’s humor that’s often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.

I don’t know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood.

It’s always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.

Women’s humor seems to be a little more supportive. It’s just kind of trying to make the other one laugh through funny voices and kind of talking about other people. I respond to that. I feel less like I’m going to get beat up in a room full of women than I do in a room full of guys.

I think it’s a brilliant tool to have, not only to have a sense of humor, but to be able to use humor to help one navigate life, and I tend not to be that type of person. I wish I were.

Delroy Lindo
I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that’s all you’ve got, it’s just boring. Everything I write, whether it’s happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it.

Comedy is difficult for an actor. But I think I have a good sense of humor and manage to make people laugh and make them happy.

Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike.

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 never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.

Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities, a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say and it’s true, I do have a certain fondness for women that have dark hair.

Bringing humor and bringing happiness and joy to an audience is a wonderful opportunity in life, believe me.

Angela Lansbury
I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.

You hear people say, ‘We take our Tennessee Williams very seriously. There is no laughter here.’ It’s full of humor! Not to laugh is a big, bad mistake!

In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee – or laugh.

You can’t be funny if you don’t have good material.

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.

Francois Truff

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There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.

Bill Cosby
The script was just the best I’d read in a long time and I love the humor, which I wasn’t expecting, and I like the fact that my six year old daughter can see the show without being, you know, protected from it.

Cameron Crowe can write dialogue and shoot it with warmth and humor like nobody else.

Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, ‘Breakfast of Champions‘ is one of the funniest books I’ve ever read.

Justin Halpern
There’s something about Southern women that is so unique yet so universal. Strong southern women are allowed to be soft and feminine and have a sense of humor. But what I love about Southern women in particular is their universality.

I am a great believer that what makes our show different is the humor.

Treat Williams
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

G.I. humor is similar to cop humor.

Nelson DeMille
I knew racial discrimination at its worst in the 1930s. I lived with the humility of it but I never lost my sense of humor. Humor is the escape valve from the deadly reality of adversity.

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that’s how self-loathing is made palatable.

Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.

My dad was very much a John Wayne kind of guy, but he was also a great guy, great sense of humor, a real dedicated dad. I don’t think he ever missed a hockey game I was in.

I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.

You have to fight for your marriage, do whatever it takes. The commitment has to be there. And if you don’t have a sense of humor, I don’t know how anybody makes it.

Kay Robertson
I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there’s some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.

Colm Meaney
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.

Patricia Highsmith
Solutions-oriented campaigning with a little passion and a little humor; I think that will go a long way. I think people are desperate for it.

People with no humor, they’re outta my life.

It’s your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don’t take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

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.

Robin Roberts
We are really living the American dream, to be a successful brand in the States and in Europe and to steep ourselves in our heritage. But we do it with a sense of humor. We don’t take ourselves too seriously in fashion.

We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator… Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or ‘stage’ Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.

Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of humor – they are too subtle to seem Spanish.

Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.

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!’

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

I’m a comedian, and I definitely see the humor in a lot of things. I am also sad a lot. I cry often and easily. I think you’re supposed to feel all kinds of things.

I don’t think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn’t sound like the kind of thing I’d do.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

My humor is channeling everything through my brain. For example, when I talk about something, it’s how Richard Lewis feels about it. I’m a storyteller. I do a lot of free association.

One of the great things about the Internet is that you can read what everybody has to say about everything. It is fascinating to me, the critiques about humor by people who have no sense of humor.

Maybe there’s a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people.

Robert Altman
Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Love, as wonderful and horrible as it is, has at its center a kind of pitiful humor.

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

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.

Humor levels the playing field. I understood that early on – that was something I had.

Robert Mankoff
My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I’m talking about or not.

A woman who knows that she doesn’t have to get all decked out to look good is sexy. A woman who can make you feel smart with her conversation skills is also sexy. I believe the sense of humor is important.

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

William Gilmore Simms
I come from a family of teasers myself. My grandfather was from Liverpool, and he had a dry sense of humor, and he would tease us terribly. My brother Beau was so skilled in his teasing that he could get a rise out of me by simply pointing at me.

I don’t think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.

Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.

Ray Stevenson
One question about a joke is, how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At ‘The New Yorker‘, we retain a lot of incongruity, tapping the playful part of the mind – Monty Python-type stuff. We also try to use humor as a vehicle for communicating ideas. Not editorial comment, but observation.

Robert Mankoff
In sitcoms, the women are so beautiful, understanding and well-bred. They have humor, but sort of display it with a twinkle of the eye and not a guffaw. But there’s no juice in that for me.

Rowling is a luminous storyteller. I love her sense of humor and the intricate wizarding world she built around Hogwarts. I think all writers aspire to be like her, to capture readers like she does. But I didn’t think about ‘Harry Potter‘ when I wrote ‘The Bone Season.’

When humor works, it works because it’s clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.

I’ll speak for myself, but there’s a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic, they survive by developing a pretty off-kilter sense of humor.

I personally have dealt with any adversity in my life with humor. That’s why I told America to ‘Read my hips!’ on ‘Dancing With the Stars’ or was happy to play along with Jason Alexander and Jerry Seinfeld in the great restaurant scene on ‘Seinfeld.’

Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasn’t comedy I don’t know if Obama could have ever become president.

My mom taught me the power of love. I learned to focus on the long-term big picture from my father. His sense of humor and light-hearted approach always make me smile. My husband is a pivotal anchor in my life. His influence encourages me to be independent and take risks.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.

A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?

Bob Hope
I liked the humor of it, I’ve always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality.

My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.

You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That’s what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor.

I have a good sense of humor. I think everything we do should have whimsy in it.

Judith Leiber
The waltz is a very important part of my life. It’s a very important way for me to express my positiveness, bringing humor to the world.

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.

My parents have always had a great sense of humor. And I really appreciate good humor in songs, witty lyrics that sneak up on you and then you listen again, and say: ‘That’s so funny.’ John Prine’s songs have always had this really witty tone.

Funny songs aren’t usually that good. Like Weird Al and maybe a couple of Beatles songs, but it’s kind of hard to bring humor into rock music in an interesting way.

In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.

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.

It used to take me forever to read and comprehend stuff, so I decided not to make the ‘Captain Underpants’ books too challenging. Don’t get me wrong – the humor and ideas are often sophisticated – but the books aren’t hard to read. I wanted kids who hate reading to find these books irresistible.

Dav Pilkey
The Good Humor man can only be pushed so far.

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

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.

But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.

Certainly, anyone whom I’ve witnessed, who has gone through something horrible and life-changing, has a sense of ironic humor, or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it.

Christopher Heyerdahl
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.

Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.

John Gerzema
Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

I like very dry humor. I don’t like things that are over the top. I like subtlety. I like things that are nonchalant. I like characters that are sort of monotone and based in dark comedy.

Emily Rios
Sometimes I’ll be sitting with my friends; I’ll say something Koothrappali-esque and make a face. There is a lot of Koothrappali in me as a human being. A lot of mannerism, humor, mischievousness, my innocence. So I don’t know if I bring him home so much as I bring myself to him at work.

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.

Horace Walpole
Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those ‘Nutty Professor‘ movies.

The rejection that we all take and the sadness and the aggravation and the loss of jobs and all of the things that we live through in our lives, without a sense of humor, I don’t know how people make it.

The interesting thing about humor is that in humor, you – in logic, something is A or not A. In humor, it’s both A and not A.

Robert Mankoff
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.

Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else’s expense. And I find that that’s just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else’s feelings.

My dad is just like everybody else‘s dad. I see him as kind of a goofy guy with a great sense of humor. I try to get in a battle of wits with him, but he always gets me. I emulate him because I’ve never seen anyone work as hard as he does.

Sense of humor is important in life, not just in clothing. How boring to live a life in beige.

I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright or somber lights. In fact, only society can pass a collective opinion on the value of human life; for this the individual is incompetent.

Humor and laughter – not necessarily derogatory derision – are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously – for fear of dying of boredom.

Humor is a part of spirituality.

You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give ’em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don’t like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot’s mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.

Comedy used to be a vehicle for change. Now, comedy has gotten to this quirky, nonsensical place, which I enjoy. But I do think there is room for discussion-based humor. We can tell those stories in a way that feels edifying.

I get asked, ‘How can you have such failures in your films?’ Well, what else is life about? There’s some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.

Poop humor is fun. If you do the toilet scenes well and commit to them, they can be really, really powerful.

Sure, I am funny and have a good sense of humor. Mostly, though, I just tell the truth. The internal dialogue people have in their heads – I just write it.

You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.

Humor can prove to be the conversational lubricant you need to remove the tension from the most unpleasant management- and accountability-related conversations.

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.

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn’t fiction at all.

And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny.

My sense of humor lies a little closer to the middle.

It’s our most underrated value, I think, as human beings is our sense of humor. It’s how we choose our friends.

So, I’ve got to have food, I’ve got to have humor. But these things are just the way in to what the show’s really about, I think, which is connecting with the people.

My senior year of high school, I was voted ‘Wittiest.’ So, several years later, I decided to try my hand at writing humor to see if I could be witty enough to make some money.

Barbara Park
My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness and sense of humor and the ability to organize, it was then. In those early days, I developed the skills that gave me a certain degree of success in American politics.

Lee Atwater
Humor is healing.

I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you’re not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.

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 like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.

People who know me, they know I have a sense of humor, I’m a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.

So once I thought of the villain with a sense of humor, I began to think of a name and the name “the Joker” immediately came to mind. There was the association with the Joker in the deck of cards, and I probably yelled literally, ‘Eureka!’ because I knew I had the name and the image at the same time.

Jerry Robinson
The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.

People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

Agnes Repplier
When I did stand-up at U.C.B., and I had a blog for a couple of years that started my writing career, ‘Totally Confident and Completely Insecure,’ it was the same kind of self-deprecating humor and stories about being out in L.A. and being treated like a loser at a hair salon because you are not famous.

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

Thomas Browne
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.

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

Jerry Seinfeld is amazing in many ways, not the least of them his ability to find humor, and convincing us to find it, too, in the million-and-two details about modern life that under different circumstances might send us into paroxysms of rage.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.

My humor tends to be a little more edgy than is appropriate for ‘Twilight,’ although I got some in there. That was fun! There’s just a tonal difference. For me, storytelling is storytelling. But, I do like writing for grown ups.

I don’t have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.

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.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

With my humor, I end up offending everybody!

Today’s business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone’s job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop.

I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.

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

You probably found ‘How to Survive a Robot Uprising‘ in the humor section. Let’s just hope that is where it belongs.

As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis.

It’s self-effacing, it’s hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.

Jerry Leiber
Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it’s more like you wait for the piece.

There’s a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress.

There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl’s sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system; it could be a lot of different things.

I certainly didn’t say while writing ‘Gossip Girl,’ ‘Oh this is going to be big!’ It was really like, ‘Oh god, everyone’s gong to hate these people! They’re so bratty!’ But I actually think what is so appealing about them is the humor in them.

I think that it’s hard for vain people to be funny. I think you can look any way you want as long as you have a good sense of humor about yourself. People who are concerned with their looks and what they’re wearing and how they present themselves tend to have less of a sense of humor about themselves.

Taran Killam
Sense of humor. A girl who doesn’t take themselves too seriously. And someone who is spontaneous. They’re the three things for me that really attract me to a girl.

Christopher Egan
Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn’t funny. It’s a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it’s not a surprise anymore.

I hang out with the ‘nerdy‘ people – they have a different sense of humor than most kids.

Liam Aiken
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.

Suzanne Vega
I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend’s garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computers and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.

I go out and speak to women’s groups all the time, and I say, ‘Guys, you gotta laugh and find the humor in things. You gotta pass it on.’

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

Mark Van Doren
It’s weird doing red carpets; it’s uncomfortable. But you can have a sense of humor about it.

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

I manage through a sense of humor. We all work hard, and work has to be a really interesting, fun place. And that has to start at the top.

I think you have to have a sense of humor about every movie that you’re doing. Your character needs to be relatable in a way that, even when you’re doing the most bizarre things, sometimes a bit of tongue in cheek is necessary to keep up the believability of it.

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

I like an English sense of humor: dry, dirty, a little bit off. That’s kind of my taste.

I think American guys tend to be a bit more forward, a bit more chatty and open than the Brits. The Brits seem to have a darker sense of humor, though I have met some Americans who have adopted bits of the British dry sense of humor as well.

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

All the people who follow me on Twitter know my sense of humor. I sometimes forget the blogosphere will give it more weight than I intended.

My wife has a good sense of humor, and instead of calling me psychic with my novels, she simply refers to me as being ‘psycho.’ That’s because multiple things in my books have come true.

Although humor is present in every one of my films, it has always been used as a way to make the darker, heavier stuff in my stories more palatable. I never set out to make ‘Humpday’ a comedy.

The thing that makes ‘Dirty Jobs’ different is that it’s one of the few shows that portrays work in a way that doesn’t highlight the drudgery. Instead, it highlights the humor.

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

A lot of my humor does come from anger. It’s like, you’re not gonna pull one over on me – which is pretty much my motto anyways.

Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn’t have a sense of humor.

I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it’s humor, sometimes it’s listening.

I’m a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting when there’s an element of humor to it.

Jonathan Tropper
The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.

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

You can’t do anything to be funny. That’s cringeworthy. If your humor comes out of a place of love every time, you don’t make the joke bigger than you. The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.

I’m a big fan of gallows humor. When my aunt passed away, she was in a coma for a day before my cousins pulled the plug. And the amount of joking and base humor that went on that day around her bed was so insane. It’s crazy how people talk when something horrible is happening.

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

I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early ’70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.

I think that ‘Saving Grace’ is pretty funny. I think that the show and the woman have a pretty great sense of humor.

I’ve always had a very dry sense of humor, and I’ve pretty much grown up on Will Ferrell, first on ‘Saturday Night Live,’ then ‘Old School‘ and ‘Wedding Crashers.’

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they’re short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.

I’m a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor.

Peter Eisenman
My experience growing up in London and growing up in a working class background is that when people are down and out, that’s when they’re probably the funniest. They have to be. That’s what they do to cope, to find joy, ’cause they don’t feel the joy inside. Or they use humor to keep people out.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.

When I started, I wanted to be thought of as tortured and seductive, not funny, but humor tends to be a reflexive part of a person’s sensibility. It’s an almost impossible thing to teach anyone, which leads me to believe that it’s intuitive.

Mark Leyner
Humor comes in all forms, and everyone has their cup of tea about what makes them laugh. But the day we censor humor is a sad one for sure.

When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.

My daughter doesn’t even get my humor. She’s like, ‘Um, no. I don’t get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.’

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

There are so many things to talk about between black people, Hispanic people, white people, gay people, men, women, it’s all based on fear. We all have fears, this thing that stops us from embracing as we are one. We are never going to be one. People are messed up, but humor lets us see how ignorant we can be.

Brains and a sense of humor trump everything else.

Ryan Paevey
I don’t think humor is forced upon my universe; it’s a part of it.

I’m not a particularly dark individual. I have my moments, it’s true, but I do have a sense of humor.

Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.

We don’t appreciate the value of humor sometimes.

I like the brooding man – a brooding man with a sense of humor.

I don’t really like using ridicule as a form of humor.

Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.

Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

Humor that is edgy is never squeaky clean.

I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.

Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.

Laurel Lea
That’s what kept us going – a sense of absurdity, rather than humor.

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

Shelley Berman
I’m actually a perpetual 13-year-old. I’ve never advanced beyond 13. Every day, tomorrow is my 14th birthday. That’s my kind of humor.

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself – with a smile.

Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.

Brittany Daniel
A lot of stars don’t have a sense of humor.

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

Good acting is thinking in front of the camera. I just do that and apply a sense of humor to it. You have to trust the audience to get it.

Charles Grodin
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

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

David Seabury
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings
I didn’t think that anything is beyond humor – not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to humor.

Mort Sahl
Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.

I like men who have goals, something that they are passionate about and work hard to achieve. A good sense of humor is important too. And I like tall guys!

With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn’t respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.

The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.

Karen Hughes
I’m not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.

I like guys who have a plan or a dream. A good sense of humor is also a must. I can be weird with my humor and say things that are random. You need to understand that I’m really goofy and go with it.

Edy Ganem
I love dark humor that crosses the line and makes you say, ‘That’s so wrong!’ And that’s ‘Family Guy’ to me.

Elena Satine
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.

I grew up with Forrest J. Ackerman’s ‘Famous Monsters of Filmland’ along with a plethora of movie tomes and wanted to write about film with a sense of personality, passion, and humor.

Harry Knowles
At NBC I wasn’t really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.

Tabitha Soren
Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.

I have five boys in the family, and it’s constant competition, sport, humor, and practical jokes.

I’m a bug on acting, which distinguishes Second City from a lot of other revues. It comes from the character, the behavior, and not from the jokes. I don’t think jokes are funny. Humor comes out of character and out of situations the character is in.

Bernard Sahlins
Set your compass to beauty, humor, and grief; stay the course no matter what, and I’ll support you with everything I’ve got.

I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant.

I’m really happy I went to a Catholic school because a lot of the repressive tactics they use make for great senses of humor.

A sense of humor… is needed armor. Joy in one’s heart and some laughter on one’s lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

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

If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.

Humor helps people open up.

Roger von Oech
It’s an amusing idea to some, this feminism thing – this audacious notion that women should be able to move through the world as freely, and enjoy the same inalienable rights and bodily autonomy, as men. At least, that’s the impression given when feminism and feminists are all too often the targets of lazy humor.

A sense of humor saves your life, and being able to make friends wherever you go.

As I get older, my sense of humor is my biggest asset.

David Alan Grier
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.

I think having a sense of humor is just as important a coping mechanism as it is a gift for everyday life.

The only way I could get comfortable around people was to make them laugh. I was an obedient girl, and humor was my one form of rebellion. I used comedy to deflect. Like, ‘Hey, check out my zit!’ – you know, making fun of yourself before someone else has a chance to.

I really wouldn’t want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there, simple things like smells and the British sense of humor.

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.

Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner‘s manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.

Certainly my personality, my sense of humor, my outlook on life was informed by the experiences of my parents and the stories they shared with me.

A good sense of humor will get you everywhere.

Josh Bowman
Religious humor is not really my area, so I probably wouldn’t do anything about that, or politics or something.

I quite like dark humor.

I love poking fun at myself. I have a rather mean sense of humor.

Humor is an antidote to all ills.

Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.

Hattie McDaniel
Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

Frank Moore Colby
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

My humor is a lot like Kristen Wiig’s from ‘Saturday Night Live’ or ‘Bridesmaids.’ Quirky, off the beaten path.

Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.

When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?

Max Frisch
I’ve got a sense of humor. I’m a funny guy.

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

Bill Cosby
We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.

Bobby Clarke
I try to give all my characters a sense of humor, so I guess I feel like I have done comedy, but maybe I’m better known for drama.

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

Jacob Riis
Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain to be some minority group offended.

People are texting and smash into the car in front of them – I think there is some humor in that. And the virtual games. People are playing these virtual games, but they’re real – I mean, the people are really playing, but it’s not a game.

I’ll let you in on a secret: I can’t stand Jay Ward. I hate being compared to Rocky and Bullwinkle. It’s just a different style of humor.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

If you can understand the humor in the drawing part you’ll probably get the humor in the audio part.

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

I have a dark sense of humor.

A boy is naturally full of humor.

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

Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn’t: Go stick your head in the mud.

Humor and family emotions are integral to Telugu cinema.

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.

If I had to describe my sense of humor, I would say it’s contemporary wit, you know what I’m saying?

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don’t get sick you’re missing half the fun.

One of my favorite things about ‘Star Trek‘ wasn’t just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would face; there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality.

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

I think it’s because it’s so different and it takes risks. Plus, it’s really smart humor. It gives the audience credit in terms of not needing to tell them when to laugh. I love that about the show. There’s no laugh track.

I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.

I don’t need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It’s very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.

Surprise is not humor. I think that there can be a fine line there.

My father was an electrical engineer who worked at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. When I was growing up, my mother wrote humor columns for the local paper. She was the Erma Bombeck of Murrysville, Pa.

There’s a charm, there’s a rhythm, there’s a soul to Jewish humor. When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, ‘You’re doing a Jewish act.’

My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.

Much of the best humor is found in the frequently tragic reality of human experience.

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

Don Herold
I always felt different as a kid, and the Kinks were like, ‘Yeah, we’re the Kinks.’ Celebrate your difference; don’t be afraid of your sense of humor, or your personality, or who you are. It emboldened me.

Well, it’s a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader… But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.

It’s good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.

Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Stephen Colbert. Those are the guys I look at who are telling me pretty much the truth. And they throw humor into it which makes it much more interesting to listen to.

I’m not just a big-haired redhead country singer who dresses flamboyantly, has this wicked sense of humor and wears rhinestones.

Naomi Judd
What we’re doing is fun – if you have any sense of humor at all!

One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don’t realize there’s a lot of craft behind the comedy.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson
So my humor, I’d say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It’s an interesting mix.

Jasper Fforde
I do find the sibling connection endlessly fascinating, as I do all family dynamics. I like how siblings seem to create their own parentless mini-civilization within a family, one that has its own laws, myths, language, humor, its own loyalties and treacheries.

Jandy Nelson
If you’re that hypersensitive about color and don’t have a sense of humor, don’t marry out of your race.

All I know about humor is that I don’t know anything about it.

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

If I didn’t try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.

I have this idyllic love life, but my mind just won’t accept that. I would like to bring a new guy home every night. I try to make humor out of that situation.

It’s easier to sit there and say you don’t like feminists because they don’t have a sense of humor.

I have a good sense of humor. I’m confident, passionate and honest. I’m a people person.

Laughter is an instant vacation.

Milton Berle
I’m not funny. What I am is brave.

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

Florenz Ziegfeld
If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.

I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don’t know if he had such a sense of humor.

I’m not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.

I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but… I have a reputation of – people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.

I don’t really have a type. I don’t want to be a cliche. But personality is a big thing for me. You can find cute guys all over. But he’s got to have some sort of sense of humor, which is so hard to find in a guy. He’s got to be a bit smart.

My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.

There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation’s history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.

Will Durst
I don’t think of myself as funny – I don’t fill up a room with my humor… I would fail miserably as a stand-up comedian.

I grew up as a very sarcastic person. I was always the class clown, and to date girls, I had to be really funny. I was really skinny growing up. I was so thin, I had to run around in the shower to get wet. That kind of thin. So I always had to rely on humor and sarcasm.

Kurt Fuller
They don’t make you pay for the humor. It’s up and down, but they’re trying to give you as many laughs as possible in 2 minutes. They are the most honest comedians ever.

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.

Kristin Hersh
Mixing humor and politics is something that works.

I grew up in a family that was very barbed and difficult, and there was a lot of humor. None of it was painless humor. All of it was at someone else’s expense. It was kind of always about power.

There is – I mean – I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.

And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.

I’ve always been a fan of a Johnny Carson because he was so great with an audience and not afraid of self-deprecating humor.

Picking my topics is sort of a process of elimination for me. Most things don’t work for me. I like to cover science and unexpected things happening in labs. Also, theoretical research doesn’t work for my style. I need scenes and interactions. Then, humor. I’m having the most fun when I can have fun with my work.

Maybe the bar is low, but most of the strips that are 50, 60, 70 years old that are on their second or third generation of artists, the humor is pretty bland. There are others by people that were raised on ‘Family Guy’ or ‘South Park‘ that are edgier. Mine‘s not as edgy as those, but it’s edgier than ‘Beetle Bailey.’

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

Sid Caesar
I have a really dry sense of humor. I don’t think it’s funny when people wink at the camera. That’s more of an actor thing, just committing to whatever the thing is.

Humor can be one of our best survival tools.

There’s something very authentic about humor, when you think about it. Anybody can pretend to be serious. But you can’t pretend to be funny.

I think being funny is not anyone’s first choice.

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

Herman Wouk
Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.

Simon Wiesenthal
It’s hard to force creativity and humor.

There is nothing like the way people feel after they’ve seen ‘The Intouchables.’ They feel amazing. The word of mouth on this film is incredible. It’s intelligent-feeling good. You’re not insulted by the low-browness or stupidity of some of the humor. It’s so smart and terrific.

Harvey Weinstein
It’s funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They’re usually quite nice comparisons; I will accept those gladly. But I am always sort of appalled at the idea of being lumped with other, more chick-y female writers. And the truth is probably that neither comparison is accurate.

In building a management team, I look for integrity, loyalty, vision, and a willingness to think outside of the box, and challenge the status quo. I also look for people who have a good sense of humor and who value and empower their team.

Shari Redstone
I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.

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

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

Thomas Wentworth Higginson
I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want – a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers.

I still haven’t found the humor in getting hit by a cement truck. My knees still hurt when I think about it, so no jokes about that yet.

I’ve always been really dark, and drawn to darker humor. Nothing has been forced, and I don’t say anything for shock value.

I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.

Humor’s a weapon if you want to make it one.

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

Barbet Schroeder
The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren’t quite sure if they liked me and they didn’t know whether or not that I was sensitive.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

Mark Van Doren
Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

Grenville Kleiser
Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory.

Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It’s like medicine – very healing.

Max Irons
Gallows humor is part of our coping mechanism. It’s part of our grief process. If we don’t know what else to do, we laugh. That’s a very real thing.

We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.

I think everyone is born with humor, but your life can beat it out of you, sadly, or you can be lucky enough to grow up in it.

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

Stan Laurel
I’m interested in humor, and greeting cards just happen to be a perfect medium for my message. They’re accessible to everyone, and thanks to all the advances that have been made by environmentally conscientious printers, I can get my message across while keeping my carbon footprint relatively small.

Anne Taintor
With Ricky Gervais, it’s all shades of wrong, it’s my kind of humor.

I don’t think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures.

Humor in a relationship is so important. Many women will say that. Some say, ‘If they can make you laugh, it’s the sexiest thing on earth.’

The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.

If it gets laughs, it’s funny.

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

A Whitney Brown
Edward Norton and I have known each other awhile. I just think he’s the real deal, supremely talented and smart. He’s got a great sense of humor.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

Rock Hudson wasn’t my type. He’s a great guy and had a great sense of humor.

Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.

I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.

M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.

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

Edgar Rice Burroughs
I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they’re fun, they do things together, they’re best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they’re going to respect Mom.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.

Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me – just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.

Anyone in the humor business isn’t thinking clearly if he doesn’t surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity – or you burn yourself out.

Hank Ketcham
There’s humor in everything. There’s gotta be humor in everything.

My humor was Victorian – and still is.

Mort Sahl
My family has been amazing, and they understand how blessed I am. They’ve been able to keep my sense of humor.

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

William Arthur Ward
I think the humor of double puns is incredible.

Richard Lederer
There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different – I love L.A.!

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

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

I want someone who can keep me on my toes, has a good sense of humor and a good heart.

If somebody is not on the same page with me humor wise, I can’t give them that.

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that’s beautiful.

Every time I do a movie like ‘Finding Neverland’ or ‘Chocolat’ or ‘Shakespeare‘ in Love,’ we deal with the creative process, but there’s humor and fun along the way. I always love that kind of movie.

Harvey Weinstein
Athletes tend to have less of a sense of humor than most people. They are heroes to so many. That might be part of it.

I liked the premise of this material. I love the marriage relationship. They kind of keep each other honest, and they enjoy each other’s sense of humor. Kind of a sexy but boring relationship.

I love a girl with a sense of humor. Someone who can make me laugh and that I can get along with and talk with and who is just sweet overall, inside and out.

Logan Henderson
Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we’re ‘dead earnest,’ humor is the only thing that is dead.

You learn timing on the road. You learn structure and how to read an audience. You learn so much about the business of laughter that you can’t learn on a set, because it’s all on you. Sometimes you bomb, and you know not to tell that joke again… You just hope people find the humor in the awkwardness.

I need a woman to have a quirky sense of humor. There’s a bunch of jokes I use, and if she doesn’t get them, she’s probably not for me.