Humor Quotes
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I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine.
Rainn Wilson
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What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
Virginia Woolf
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Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
Carl Hiaasen
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The secret to humor is surprise.
Aristotle
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Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
Flip Wilson
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When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.
Ted Danson
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Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
Irvin S. Cobb
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One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would face; there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality.
J. J. Abrams
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I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short stories, novels - horrible. At a certain point, I recognized that it was fun to write dialogue that had a degree of lightness and humor.
Patrick deWitt
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Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.
J. Tillman
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You need to talk about sex with a sense of humor, especially because sex is a sensitive area for a lot of people.
Paige Turco
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Have you seen the bologna that has the olives in it? Who's that for? 'I like my bologna like a martini. With an olive.' 'I'll have the bologna sandwich - dirty.'
Jim Gaffigan
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You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.
Lance Bass NSYNC
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
Samuel Butler
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Humor is a wonderful way to deal with our suffering because if we can laugh at our troubles, we can feel better. Thich Nhat Hanh is a special man who has helped millions with their suffering with incredible technique. But he doesn't know real suffering, because he has not dated as much as I have.
Garry Shandling
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The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
Umberto Eco
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
Langston Hughes
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Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I am here to have fun here with my work.
Gary Shteyngart
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I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times.
Carlos Ponce
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I like humor: the sort of gentle humor that points out human foibles.
Ed Greenwood
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The Good Humor man can only be pushed so far.
Nancy Cartwright
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It's the squares who know how to fly the fighter planes and operate the missiles and the bombs and work the M-16s. Liberals would still be fumbling with the federally mandated trigger locks.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
Tcheky Karyo
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I have my outlet for my humor through my characters, and I also have the intimacy of rapport with my fans that allows me to explain my philosophy and spirituality.
Flip Wilson