Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
~By Malcolm Muggeridge ~
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.
~By Jason Alexander ~
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
~By Agnes Repplier ~
It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I'm still looking for that.
~By Michelle Williams ~
I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act.
~By Gene Tierney ~
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.
~By Jonny Lee Miller ~
Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.
~By Ted Rall ~
You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.
~By Steve Irwin ~
I've had a very laughable career and what has seen me through is my sense of humor.
~By Linda Gray ~
But when they offered this little situation for me to do this voice in this special segment, I found it so incredibly humorous that I said yes, and I enjoyed it. It was fun.
~By Werner Klemperer ~
A lot of stars don't have a sense of humor.
~By Kathy Griffin ~
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.
~By Patricia Arquette ~
Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
~By Bill Nye ~
Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
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?
~By Max Frisch ~
When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.
~By Piers Anthony ~
I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.
~By Chris Cooper ~
There's a few tunes of mine that don't have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere.
~By Mose Allison ~
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
~By Lionel Trilling ~
Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.
~By Emanuel Celler ~
Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
~By Bill Cosby ~
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.
~By Alan Thicke ~
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.
~By Wentworth Miller ~
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.
~By David Lynch ~
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.
~By Dean Koontz ~
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.
~By Enid Bagnold ~
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
Gags die, humor doesn't.
~By Jack Benny ~
Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.
~By Terrence Howard ~
I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.
~By Peter Sellers ~
Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.
~By Carter Burwell ~
The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
~By William Temple ~
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.
~By Washington Irving ~
I don't have a very quick sense of humor.
~By Florenz Ziegfeld ~
But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.
~By Marion Ross ~
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
~By Francis Bacon ~
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
~By Dan Castellaneta ~
God has a most wicked sense of humor.
~By Maureen O'Hara ~
This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.
~By John Callahan ~
And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the humor.
~By Damon Wayans ~
Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else.
~By Doris Roberts ~
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
~By Robert Frost ~
You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.
~By Liza Minelli ~
Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.
~By Herbert Beerbohm Tree ~
The best scary movies have great humor in them and a great story.
~By Stephen Sommers ~
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.
~By Laurel Lee ~
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.
~By Allen Klein ~
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.
~By Jeremy Northam ~
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.
~By Peter Steele ~
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
~By Agnes Repplier ~
I'm not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.
~By Ben Stiller ~
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.
~By Tim Allen ~
What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!
~By Calvin Klein ~
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.
~By Robert Orben ~
Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.
~By Bill Forsyth ~
Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike.
~By Trey Parker ~
Advertisers also know that humor can help bond us to their product.
~By Allen Klein ~
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.
~By Xun Zi ~
Puns are a form of humor with words.
~By Guillermo Cabrera Infante ~
Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
~By Victor Borge ~
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
~By Clifton Fadiman ~
Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.
~By Barbet Schroeder ~
Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns.
~By Sergio Aragones ~
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.
~By Bob Newhart ~
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.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
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.
~By Bobby Knight ~
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
~By J. Robert Oppenheimer ~
A boy is naturally full of humor.
~By Robert Powell ~
If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.
~By Kate Beckinsale ~
Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny.
~By Will Eisner ~
My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.
~By Dane Cook ~
Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.
~By Eminem ~
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
~By Mel Brooks ~
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.
~By Tom Berenger ~
Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.
~By George Jean Nathan ~
It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
~By Edward de Bono ~
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.
~By David Zucker ~
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
~By Mark Twain ~
I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.
~By William Gilmore Simms ~
Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.
~By Lynda Barry ~
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.
~By Lisa Loeb ~
Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.
~By Suzanne Fields ~
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
~By William Temple ~
I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.
~By Jerome K. Jerome ~
I'm not a comic. I'm a humorist.
~By Dick Gregory ~
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.
~By Berke Breathed ~
Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
~By Mason Cooley ~
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.
~By John Kricfalusi ~
Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know.
~By Emmett Kelly ~
There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.
~By Cullen Hightower ~
There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
~By Bill Cosby ~
If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.
~By Paul Simon ~
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.
~By Lorna Luft ~
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