Humor Quotes
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Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
Berthold Auerbach -
A race track is a place where windows clean people.
Danny Thomas
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In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.
Gail Sheehy -
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
J. B. Priestley -
Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
Zach Anner -
One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
Mallory Ortberg -
To love women, to love our vaginas, to know them and touch them and be familiar with who we are and what we need. To satisfy ourselves, to teach our lovers to satisfy us, to be present in our vaginas, to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humor, to make them visible so they cannot be ravaged in the dark without great consequence, so that our center, our point, our motor, our dream, is no longer detached, mutilated, numb, broken, invisible, or ashamed.
Eve Ensler
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
H. G. Wells -
Humor is an antidote to all ills.
Patch Adams -
The secret to humor is surprise.
Aristotle -
He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
Fay Wray -
I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.
Jack Lemmon -
Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.
Garrison Keillor
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I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
Ian Frazier -
I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
Randa Haines -
People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.
Ian Frazier -
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.
H. L. Mencken -
For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
Zoe Kravitz -
You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.
Lance Bass NSYNC
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The Muslims in the Cape are associated with having a very good sense of humor.
Riaad Moosa -
You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
Vanessa Bayer -
Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys -
With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.
Ian Frazier