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 ~
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
~By James Thurber ~
Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
~By Malcolm Muggeridge ~
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 ~
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 ~
Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.
~By Allen Klein ~
There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.
~By Sinclair Lewis ~
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 ~
I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.
~By Herman Wouk ~
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 Good Humor man can only be pushed so far.
~By Nancy Cartwright ~
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 ~
All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.
~By Fred Allen ~
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.
~By Zac Efron ~
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
~By Robert Frost ~
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
~By Max Eastman ~
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 ~
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 ~
Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
~By Leo Rosten ~
Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike.
~By Trey Parker ~
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 ~
Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
~By Allen Klein ~
All my jobs have been with food in one way or another since 1948. My parents were in the hotel business, and I just loved the warm hearted people who worked so hard with such good humor.
~By Graham Kerr ~
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 ~
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 ~
A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.
~By John Ratzenberger ~
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 ~
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.
~By Will Durst ~
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
~By Max Eastman ~
Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
~By Malcolm Muggeridge ~
A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.
~By Percy Ross ~
Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
~By Lionel Trilling ~
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 ~
There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
~By Bill Cosby ~
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
~By Bill Cosby ~
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 ~
Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.
~By Allen Klein ~
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
~By Alice Meynell ~
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
~By Dick Clark ~
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
~By Thomas W. Higginson ~
It's very hard to write humor.
~By Mark Strand ~
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.
~By Randy Forbes ~
Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.
~By Jesse Ventura ~
The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
~By Jacob August Riis ~
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
~By Don Herold ~
I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.
~By Anne Wilson Schaef ~
If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.
~By Kate Beckinsale ~
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 ~
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 ~
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
~By Alexander Pope ~
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
~By Jennifer Jones ~
The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.
~By Karen Hughes ~
I'm not a comic. I'm a humorist.
~By Dick Gregory ~
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
~By Agnes Repplier ~
Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.
~By Steve Allen ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Simon Pegg ~
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 mankind's greatest blessing.
~By Mark Twain ~
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 ~
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 ~
If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?
~By Casey Affleck ~
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 ~
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
~By Jessamyn West ~
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 ~
The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place.
~By Mike Figgis ~
Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
~By Flip Wilson ~
Charlie Chaplin's genius was in comedy. He has no sense of humor, particularly about himself.
~By Lita Grey Chaplin ~
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 stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
~By Manuel Puig ~
I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home.
~By Cathy Guisewite ~
Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.
~By Barbet Schroeder ~
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.
~By Horace Walpole ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
~By Mark Twain ~
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 ~
I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.
~By Anjelica Huston ~
Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.
~By Sergio Aragones ~
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
~By George Santayana ~
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 ~
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
~By Robertson Davies ~
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
~By Agnes Repplier ~
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 think in life, the sense of humor and comedy always exists.
~By Mike Epps ~
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 ~
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 ~
Dali had a good sense of humor - obviously you could tell just looking at him; he was funny.
~By Joe Grant ~
Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
~By Tab Hunter ~
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 ~
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