People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it's a sense of humor. If you've got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive.
~By Phil Keoghan ~
If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.
~By Kate Beckinsale ~
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.
~By Martin Sheen ~
Being a Hot Mom means being respected as a mom and a woman. And, the key to being a Hot Mom is having a sense of humor about yourself and all the crazy situations that arise.
~By Jami Gertz ~
I'm not a traditional politician, and I have a sense of humor. I'll try to soften it and become boring, maybe even very boring, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to.
~By Silvio Berlusconi ~
Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.
~By Allen Klein ~
Humor is healing.
~By Brad Garrett ~
Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act; if it weren't, more women would do it.
~By Kate Clinton ~
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 ~
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 ~
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
~By Mark Twain ~
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 ~
Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.
~By Allen Klein ~
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
~By Elizabeth Gaskell ~
Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
~By Tab Hunter ~
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
~By Alexander Pope ~
I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.
~By Shelley Berman ~
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
~By Thomas Browne ~
God has a most wicked sense of humor.
~By Maureen O'Hara ~
If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.
~By Teri Garr ~
Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.
~By Ned Rorem ~
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 ~
What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!
~By Calvin Klein ~
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
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 ~
I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.
~By Ivan Reitman ~
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 ~
Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
~By Bill Nye ~
A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.
~By Percy Ross ~
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 ~
I wanted to do an hour-long show, and I wanted to something that was dramatic and sometimes funny and humorous, as well. I'm just delighted to have this opportunity to be a part of this project.
~By Ron Glass ~
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.
~By Jeremy Renner ~
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
~By Romain Gary ~
Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.
~By Allen Klein ~
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 ~
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.
~By Sarah Chalke ~
Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
~By Edward Albee ~
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.
~By Jason Biggs ~
As far as humor goes, I've always been a very insecure person and I've always wanted to be liked.
~By Peter Steele ~
It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.
~By Edgar Rice Burroghs ~
Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
~By Carl Hiaasen ~
We do not take humor seriously enough.
~By Konrad Lorenz ~
I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
~By Campbell Scott ~
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 ~
You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.
~By Steve Irwin ~
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
~By George Herbert ~
Humor comes from self-confidence.
~By Rita Mae Brown ~
Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.
~By Terrence Howard ~
You may not like the humor, but that is why every radio has an on-off button.
~By Mel Karmazin ~
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
~By Max Eastman ~
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 try to bring it across on my record, in my dress, in what I do and what I say because to me humor is important. You should have a dose of that and I guess giving it is what I'm here for.
~By Bootsy Collins ~
Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.
~By Robert Collier ~
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
~By Leo Rosten ~
Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs.
~By John Ratzenberger ~
A boy is naturally full of humor.
~By Robert Powell ~
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 ~
Democratic politicians have disliked things I've written, Republican politicians... if they all love you, you might as well be driving a Good Humor truck.
~By Adam Clymer ~
This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.
~By John Callahan ~
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.
~By Courteney Cox ~
Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
I don't have a very quick sense of humor.
~By Florenz Ziegfeld ~
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
~By Langston Hughes ~
We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.
~By Bobby Clarke ~
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
~By E. B. White ~
Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
~By Allen Klein ~
The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.
~By Arthur Hailey ~
A lot of stars don't have a sense of humor.
~By Kathy Griffin ~
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 ~
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 ~
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
~By Langston Hughes ~
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 ~
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
~By Sidonie Gabrielle Colette ~
I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.
~By Lawrence Kasdan ~
If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.
~By William Howard Taft ~
A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.
~By Chevy Chase ~
Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
~By Mason Cooley ~
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
~By William Arthur Ward ~
I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.
~By William Collins ~
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.
~By Francois Truffaut ~
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.
~By Lynda Barry ~
Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
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 ~
Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.
~By Allen Klein ~
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
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.
~By Madeleine Stowe ~
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 ~
Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?
~By Frank Moore Colby ~
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
~By Clifton Paul Fadiman ~
I'm not for gratuitous nudity, but if there's humor, I don't have a problem.
~By Rebecca Romijn ~
Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.
~By Jesse Ventura ~
Humor results when society says you can't scratch certain things in public, but they itch in public.
~By Tom Walsh ~
Have a sense of humor about life - you will need it. And be courteous.
~By Peter Jennings ~
The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.
~By Lou Holtz ~
If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.
~By Xun Zi ~
Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.
~By Brittany Daniel ~
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