Humor Quotes
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The big ballpark can do it all!
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There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.
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There is a grim and ghastly humor -- the humor that is born of a pathetic philosophy -- which now and then strikes me in reading the bright and keen-witted work of our American paragraphers. It is a humor that may be crystallized by hunger and sorrow and tears. It is not found elsewhere as it is in America. It is out of the question in England, because an Englishman cannot poke fun at himself. He cannot joke about an empty flour-barrel. We can: especially if by doing it we may swap the joke for another barrel of flour. We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.
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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
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Billy Almon has all of his in-laws and outlaws here this afternoon.
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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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Nothing is better than the unintended humor of reality.
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Kent Abbott is in the on-deck circuit.
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If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
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The humanity of the piece, the humor and insightfulness, and intelligence, they were what I read, and what I experienced when I got to see what was on the screen, ... I'm really happy with the film. In terms of my hopes and expectations, they were realized. It's a great role, and I had a great time performing it.
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You are not just a funny person or just a journalist. Most people are hybrids of having a smart opinion and a great sense of humor.
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Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.
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I think humor is like a shield that lets you get as close to the sad sad flame as possible - far closer, oftentimes, than drama.
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I come from a very big family. Nine parents.
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We started with 53,000 people. Half are gone, but surprisingly, most are still here!
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Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.
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If I know what something's about, and I can always have that touchstone, I feel like I can reach for really ridiculous humor and also go really dark in terms of the things I'm afraid of.
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When you lose your hands, you can't play baseball.
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Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.
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The best scary movies have great humor in them and a great story.
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If Rose's streak was still intact, with that single to left, the fans would be throwing babies out of the upper deck.
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In the wise words of Mahatma Gandhi: have a sense of humor.
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Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.
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I'm the youngest, too. When you're the youngest of a big family, people are like, "You're the baby, you're spoiled!" The fact of the matter is, when you're the youngest of a big family, by the time you're a teenager, your parents are insane. You're like, "Hey, I'm going roller-skating-" "You're not going roller-skating or you'll end up pregnant like your sister. Why don't you smoke pot and become a lawyer?"
