The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
~By William Temple ~
I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.
~By Max Cannon ~
My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
~By Manuel Puig ~
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 ~
I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.
~By William Gilmore Simms ~
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.
~By Alanis Morissette ~
Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.
~By Frank Muir ~
Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.
~By Allen Klein ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Suzanne Vega ~
As far as humor goes, I've always been a very insecure person and I've always wanted to be liked.
~By Peter Steele ~
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 ~
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
~By Thomas W. Higginson ~
My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.
~By Dane Cook ~
While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story.
~By Ann Beattie ~
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
~By Will Rogers ~
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
~By Agnes Repplier ~
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 ~
America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.
~By David Riesman ~
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
~By Langston Hughes ~
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 ~
Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
I am a great believer that what makes our show different is the humor.
~By Treat Williams ~
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 ~
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
~By Erica Jong ~
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
~By Freeman Dyson ~
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 ~
Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
~By Malcolm Muggeridge ~
Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.
~By Shel Silverstein ~
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 ~
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 ~
We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.
~By Bobby Clarke ~
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 ~
What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!
~By Calvin Klein ~
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
~By Thomas Browne ~
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've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
~By Ted Lange ~
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.
~By Christopher Morley ~
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 ~
The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place.
~By Mike Figgis ~
Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.
~By Allen Klein ~
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 ~
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 ~
A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.
~By John Ratzenberger ~
I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.
~By Colin Firth ~
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 ~
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.
~By James Thurber ~
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 ~
Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.
~By William Collins ~
Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.
~By Mark Van Doren ~
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 ~
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 ~
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
~By George Santayana ~
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 ~
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
~By Mark Twain ~
I'm not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.
~By Ben Stiller ~
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 ~
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.
~By Grenville Kleiser ~
Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless he's been in so long that it just doesn't matter, and he's not running for president. But it's just that people are so sensitive and so touchy, and you're just going to upset somebody without ever realizing it.
~By Mark Russell ~
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
~By Don Herold ~
All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.
~By Fred Allen ~
The secret to humor is surprise.
~By Aristotle ~
There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
~By Miguel de Cervantes ~
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.
~By Norman Lear ~
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 ~
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
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.
~By Priscilla Presley ~
It's very hard to write humor.
~By Mark Strand ~
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 ~
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?
~By John Kricfalusi ~
There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
~By Bill Cosby ~
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
~By James Thurber ~
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
~By E. B. White ~
God has a most wicked sense of humor.
~By Maureen O'Hara ~
Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.
~By Peter Steele ~
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
~By Sidonie Gabrielle Colette ~
Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.
~By Wavy Gravy ~
Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
~By David Seabury ~
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 ~
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
~By Alexander Pope ~
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 ~
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
~By Robertson Davies ~
I'll do humor about myself, I'll poke fun and everything, but that's me and I can do it to me. I think it's cruel to do it to somebody else.
~By Delta Burke ~
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
~By Bill Cosby ~
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 ~
Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.
~By Jonathan Shapiro ~
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 ~
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.
~By Victoria Beckham ~
The Good Humor man can only be pushed so far.
~By Nancy Cartwright ~
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 ~
What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.
~By Bern Williams ~
I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.
~By Peter Sellers ~
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 ~
There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.
~By Robert Benchley ~
I'm not for gratuitous nudity, but if there's humor, I don't have a problem.
~By Rebecca Romijn ~
You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.
~By Liza Minelli ~
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