Humor Quotes
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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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Sometimes I make myself laugh, but that's because I appreciate my sense of humor.
Regina Hall
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Once anyone who has a sense of humor can do what they want, they want to do funny bits as much as possible.
Gavin McInnes
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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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Turner was like a pencil. He bent around that pitch!
Jerry Coleman
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I love how New York is so multicultural. I wish I was ethnic, I'm nothing. Because if you're Hispanic and you get angry, people are like, 'He's got a Latin temper!' If you're a white guy and you get angry, people are like, 'That guy's a jerk.'
Jim Gaffigan
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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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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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It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty.
Bette Greene
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Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.
Bill Vaughan
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Boros is not with the team today because he's attending his daughter's funeral. Oh, wait, it's her wedding.
Jerry Coleman
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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 love playing people who don't have a sense of humor for instance, there's nothing funnier to me than a person with no sense of humor.
Rita Moreno
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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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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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My parents never understood me; they were Japanese.
Chic Murray
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Eric Show will be 0 for 10 if that pop fly ever comes down.
Jerry Coleman
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So there I was lying in the gutter. A man stopped and asked '"What's the matter? Did you fall over?" So I said "No. I've a bar of toffee in my back pocket and I was just trying to break it."
Chic Murray
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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 went to the dentist. He said "Say Aaah." I said "Why?" He said "My dog's died."
Tommy Cooper
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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 I do readings and people can’t stop laughing, but I’m reading about pretty tragic things. I think Soviet humor is a desperate humor, rather typical of very different nations, of Jewish people, Ukrainians, and of course, Russians. It’s despair – just keep laughing, until you are dead.”
Alina Bronsky
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Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
Miguel de Cervantes
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He many not be hurt as much as he really is.
Jerry Coleman