Humor is just another defense against the universe.
~By Mel Brooks ~
Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.
~By Mary Kay Blakely ~
But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something.
~By Dabney Coleman ~
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
~By Leo Rosten ~
This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.
~By John Callahan ~
Gags die, humor doesn't.
~By Jack Benny ~
Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.
~By Steve Allen ~
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.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike.
~By Trey Parker ~
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
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 ~
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.
~By Mike Judge ~
Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.
~By Milos Forman ~
When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.
~By Allen Klein ~
The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess so. I guess some do political humor, some do topical humor, but the ones that I like, the ones that are appealing to me, were guys who were just talking to you about their life.
~By Ray Romano ~
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 ~
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
~By A. Whitney Brown ~
Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.
~By William Collins ~
In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets; you may not find something to laugh about immediately.
~By Allen Klein ~
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.
~By Adam Smith ~
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
~By Mark Twain ~
An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.
~By Constance Rourke ~
I love the diversity of America. I love the plain, normal sense of humor Americans have. It is not wicked, like in some countries. And I also love how new America is.
~By Antonio Banderas ~
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 ~
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
~By Peter De Vries ~
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
~By Mark Twain ~
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.
~By Jimmy Buffett ~
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 ~
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.
~By Stephen Collins ~
The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.
~By Bert Williams ~
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.
~By Cathy Guisewite ~
Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.
~By John Lithgow ~
I love Sell Out, I think it's great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. It's got humor, great songs, irony.
~By Roger Daltrey ~
It's a humorous statement that doesn't mean anything. You can't lie to God - it's ridiculous.
~By Jimmy Swaggart ~
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
~By Robertson Davies ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Kristin Hersh ~
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.
~By Robert Benchley ~
Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.
~By Terrence Howard ~
When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.
~By Allen Klein ~
I think in life, the sense of humor and comedy always exists.
~By Mike Epps ~
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
~By Irvin S. Cobb ~
At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
~By Tabitha Soren ~
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 ~
The best scary movies have great humor in them and a great story.
~By Stephen Sommers ~
Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.
~By Lara Flynn Boyle ~
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 ~
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
~By Lin Yutang ~
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 ~
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
~By Mark Twain ~
I'm not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.
~By Ben Stiller ~
I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality.
~By Amber Tamblyn ~
I am a great believer that what makes our show different is the humor.
~By Treat Williams ~
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 is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
~By Thomas W. Higginson ~
A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.
~By Allen Klein ~
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
~By Frank Howard Clark ~
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 ~
My family has been amazing, and they understand how blessed I am. They've been able to keep my sense of humor.
~By Karen Duffy ~
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 ~
If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?
~By Casey Affleck ~
Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
~By Tab Hunter ~
I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.
~By James Humes ~
I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I've got a dry sense of humor.
~By Katie Price ~
I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.
~By Lawrence Kasdan ~
I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.
~By William Gilmore Simms ~
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 ~
It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.
~By Edgar Rice Burroghs ~
I really like the Observer. I think I'd love to have a column with a broad reach that would enable me to do some proper reporting, but keep it on sort of a humorous level. I've always had a very happy experience writing for them.
~By Toby Young ~
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
~By Mark Twain ~
Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.
~By Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
~By William Makepeace Thackeray ~
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
~By George Herbert ~
Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.
~By Suzanne Fields ~
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
~By James Thurber ~
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
~By Agnes Repplier ~
We do not take humor seriously enough.
~By Konrad Lorenz ~
And it really pisses Peter and Micky off when I get onto one of those tangents where I start to do humor.
~By Davy Jones ~
My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.
~By Tony Visconti ~
Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.
~By Robert Morgan ~
Humor comes from self-confidence.
~By Rita Mae Brown ~
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
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.
~By Hugh Sidey ~
We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross.
~By Shawn Wayans ~
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
~By Alexander Pope ~
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
~By Don Herold ~
Cynicism is humor in ill health.
~By H. G. Wells ~
A boy is naturally full of humor.
~By Robert Powell ~
It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.
~By Jesse Ventura ~
Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
I'm not a comic. I'm a humorist.
~By Dick Gregory ~
Puns are a form of humor with words.
~By Guillermo Cabrera Infante ~
When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.
~By Allen Klein ~
Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.
~By Eminem ~
While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.
~By Dweezil Zappa ~
As far as humor goes, I've always been a very insecure person and I've always wanted to be liked.
~By Peter Steele ~
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