What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!
~By Calvin Klein ~
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
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 first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
~By William Temple ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?
~By Dan Simmons ~
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 ~
We do not take humor seriously enough.
~By Konrad Lorenz ~
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 can be one of our best survival tools.
~By Allen Klein ~
Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.
~By Patricia Highsmith ~
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 ~
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.
~By Robert Benchley ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
People with no humor, they're outta my life.
~By Patti LaBelle ~
A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.
~By Percy Ross ~
Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.
~By Allen Klein ~
I mean, yeah, I'm sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor, but I don't think it's all that different than the American sense of humor.
~By Simon Pegg ~
It's a humorous statement that doesn't mean anything. You can't lie to God - it's ridiculous.
~By Jimmy Swaggart ~
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
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 ~
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
~By A. Whitney Brown ~
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 ~
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
~By William James ~
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
~By Mark Twain ~
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
~By Alexander Pope ~
A lot of stars don't have a sense of humor.
~By Kathy Griffin ~
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
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 ~
We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross.
~By Shawn Wayans ~
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 ~
In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.
~By Jessica Savitch ~
I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.
~By Patricia Clarkson ~
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 ~
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
~By Irvin S. Cobb ~
This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.
~By John Callahan ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
~By Mark Twain ~
The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.
~By Michael York ~
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 don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.
~By Ivan Reitman ~
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 ~
The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren't quite sure if they liked me and they didn't know whether or not that I was sensitive.
~By Geraldine Ferraro ~
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
~By E. B. White ~
What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.
~By Bern Williams ~
Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.
~By Allen Klein ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.
~By Allen Klein ~
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 ~
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
~By Mark Twain ~
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 ~
You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.
~By Steve Irwin ~
Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.
~By Dick Van Dyke ~
If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.
~By Alan Thicke ~
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
~By Clifton Fadiman ~
The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
~By Umberto Eco ~
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 ~
I've had a very laughable career and what has seen me through is my sense of humor.
~By Linda Gray ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
~By Eric Sevareid ~
I'm not a comic. I'm a humorist.
~By Dick Gregory ~
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
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 ~
Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
~By Flip Wilson ~
If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?
~By Casey Affleck ~
If you can understand the humor in the drawing part you'll probably get the humor in the audio part.
~By Eric San ~
God has a most wicked sense of humor.
~By Maureen O'Hara ~
Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.
~By Alanis Morissette ~
One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.
~By Ralph Fiennes ~
If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.
~By Kate Beckinsale ~
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 ~
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
~By George Herbert ~
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
~By Max Eastman ~
Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
~By Carl Hiaasen ~
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 ~
Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.
~By Peter Steele ~
My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
~By Manuel Puig ~
I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.
~By John Zorn ~
My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.
~By Dane Cook ~
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 ~
A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?
~By Bob Hope ~
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 ~
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 ~
Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.
~By Ned Rorem ~
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
~By Robert Frost ~
Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.
~By Mary Kay Blakely ~
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