Humor Quotes
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This friend of mine had a terrible upbringing. When his mother lifted him up to feed him, his father rented the pram out. Then, when they came into money later, his mother hired a woman to push the pram - and he's been pushed for money ever since.
Chic Murray
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I dreamt I was forced to eat 25lb of marshmallows. When I woke up, my pillow was missing.
Chic Murray
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I went to the butchers to buy a leg of lamb. "Is it Scotch?", I asked. "Why?" the butcher said in reply. "Are you going to talk to it or eat it?". "In that case, have you got any wild duck?". "No", he responded, "but I've got one I could aggravate for you."
Chic Murray
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I'm beginning to feel that the real endangered species on planet earth are not the whales and the elephants but those of us who can laugh at the world and ourselves. ... I fear the dry turn of the American mind, this focus on the literal, as much as I fear our capacity for self-destruction. We've become hagridden by facts, obsessed with product instead of process. Where's the energetic wit, the looney outlook, the frivolity, the lightness of comforting laughter? It has become fashionable to know and unfashionable to feel, and you can't really laugh if you can't feel.
Rita Mae Brown
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I love National Geographic. Just when you think you've seen the last lost native tribe, National Geographic will find a new one.
Sandra Bernhard
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I think I have always had a little humor.
Marilyn Monroe
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A sense of humor isn't everything. It's only 90 percent of everything.
Cynthia Heimel
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Busy yourselves with this, you damned walruses, while the rest of use proceed with the libretto.
John Barrymore
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Viewers know that I have a weird sense of humor, but that I'm serious about the game.
Alex Trebek
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I really do believe that anything in life - any obstacle or challenge - can be made better with humor.
Amy Poehler
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I had these slinky eyes and a sense of humor.
Myrna Loy
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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.
William Collins
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It's a very important skill set for an actor to be able to bring the humor into any moment, whether you're doing drama or comedy.
Nathaniel Buzolic
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Humor heals the heckler.
Gerald C. Meyers
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I think humor is often a very powerful tool to be able to express ideas that are heavy.
Camille Henrot
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I had no way to have a sense of humor about The Exorcist. I didn't know how. And this enabled me.
Linda Blair
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If Disney still wants to make Epcot Center futuristic, they could do so by blowing the place up with an atom bomb.
P. J. O'Rourke
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How fatally the entire want of humor cripples the mind.
Alice James
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My mother was so house proud that when my father got up to sleepwalk she had the bed made by the time he got back.
Chic Murray
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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.
Miguel de Cervantes
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I don't know, maybe Australian humour isn't supposed to be funny. It's as dry as the Sahara, and I think people miss that.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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Why are they all staring?" demanded Albus as he and Rose craned around to look at the other students. "Don’t let it worry you," said Ron. "It’s me. I’m extremely famous.
Joanne Rowling
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I think we're always looking for ways to inject a sense of humor into our music.
Finneas
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I watch a lot of TV, I drink a lot of coffee, but you know what's really addictive? Heroin.
Jim Gaffigan