Humor Quotes
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The boat was so old; it must have been launched when Long John Silver had two legs and an egg on his shoulder.
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Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life. Its mode has often been swift and coarse and ruthless, beyond art and beyond established civilization. It has engaged in warfare against the established heritage, against the bonds of pioneer existence. Its objective --the unconscious objective of a disunited people --has seemed to be that of creating fresh bonds, a new unity, the semblance of a society and the rounded completion of an American type.
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Humor is wit and love.
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Jazz is musical humor. The noun jazz describes a modern American technique for the playing of any music, accompanied by noise called harmony, and interpolated instrumental effects. It also describes music exhibiting influence of that technique which has as its traditional object to secure the effects of surprise, or in the broadest sense, humor.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
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Billy Almon has all of his in-laws and outlaws here this afternoon.
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The Christian church is a society of sinners. It is the only society in the world membership in which is based upon the single qualification that the candidate shall be unworthy of membership.
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I cleaned the attic with the wife the other day. Now I can't get the cobwebs out of her hair.
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The game in St. Louis has been halted in the fourth inning because of rain. I'll bet they have the jacuzzis going there.
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Even though the ball was doubled, they got it anyway.
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When you consider the opportunity and power He had to really do a job, and then look at the stupid, ugly little mess He made of it instead, His sheer incompetence is almost staggering.
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Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.
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Apparently sometimes my humor is dryer than a desert.
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That's a problem I have a lot of the time with humor in music, where it just kind of stops at the obvious level of: 'Hey, isn't it something that's in bad taste?'
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In the wise words of Mahatma Gandhi: have a sense of humor.
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A Jazz man should be saying what he feels: humor, sadness, joy... all the things that humans have.
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The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.
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There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
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I kinda expected to turn the bottle and see a recipe. "So that's how you make ice cubes. Apparently you just freeze this stuff. Oh, but you need a tray. That's how they trick you into it."
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A Scot is a man who keeps the Sabbath, and everything else he can lay his hands on.
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Good humor is the sunshine of the mind.
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The ballgame is over...in this inning.
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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.
