Humor Quotes
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Pie can't compete with cake. Put candles in a cake, it's a birthday cake. Put candles in a pie, someone's drunk in the kitchen.
Jim Gaffigan
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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
Thomas Carlyle
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If you want a lot of visual humor, the way to do it is have visual people do it.
Dan Povenmire
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I went into a butchers and I said, 'I'll have a pound of sausages. 'He said, 'I'm very sorry, sir, we only serve kilos in here. 'I said, 'Okay then I'll have a pound of kilos.'
Tommy Cooper
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When the Constitution declares that 'all men are created equal,' it is not referring to intelligence, good looks, good humor, height, weight, or income. It is talking about certain rights, 'inalienable', in that they cannot be taken away.
Elisabeth Elliot
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Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape s their opposites. It is a humane influence, softening with mirth the ragged inequities of existence, prompting tolerant views of life, bridging over the space which separates the lofty from the lowly, the great from the humble.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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Young Frank Pastore may have pitched the biggest victory of 1979. Maybe the biggest victory of the year!
Jerry Coleman
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Eric Show will be 0 for 10 if that pop fly ever comes down.
Jerry Coleman
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Well, honor is the subject of my story.
William Shakespeare
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Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.
Sigmund Freud
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I have heard it said that a complicated childhood can lead to a life in the arts. I tell you this story of my father and me to let you know I am qualified to be a comedian.
Steve Martin
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One does not laugh because one is happy; one is happy because one laughs.
Mireille Guiliano
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I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.
Ivan Reitman
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Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.
Evelyn Underhill
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It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty.
Bette Greene
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Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that just couldn't be enslaved.
Redd Foxx
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My parents never understood me; they were Japanese.
Chic Murray
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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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I sure hope you're staying alive for the upcoming Dodgers series.
Jerry Coleman
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The big ballpark can do it all!
Jerry Coleman
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Humor is so culturally based that when I try to tell a joke as me being a white American, if I tell other white Americans, they'll laugh. If I tell an African American, they might not laugh. In fact, they either might not find it funny, or they might find it offensive, and I didn't mean it to be offensive. So these are the sort of little things that build up over time, just like in a marriage. You know, the little things can build up over time.
Michael Emerson
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Sometimes you want to have a talk about race, about police violence. It's very hard to get through to somebody. Everyone's got their side staked out. They don't want to talk about it. But you can break the ice with a little humor.
Colton Dunn
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He can be lethal death.
Jerry Coleman