Quotes About Humor

Quotes about humor

“I laughed when the angry dog let out a funny, squeaky bark; I learned, though, that his bite wasn’t quite as funny as he seemed to think it was.”  Stephanie Schneider

“I can tell if two people are in love by how they hold each other’s hands, and how thick their sanitation gloves are.” ―Jarod Kintz

“Writers don't get mad they get even in their novels.” ― Candace C. Bowen

“And your excuse?' I asked.
'I'm a sociopath; I don't have to be nice,' Nicky said.
I gave him a look.
'You're mad at him.I can feel it; which means I really don't have to be nice to him.'
'I thought you were friends.'
'What part of sociopath didn't you understand?' he asked.” ― Laurell K. Hamilton

“You say it’s your more affectionate pet snake?” I asked nervously, as the python coiled more tightly around me.  “That’s a good thing, right?”  - Stephanie Schneider

“Chocolate is medicinal. I just did another study that confirms it.” ― Michelle M. Pillow

“Is there anything I could get for you?" He asked "Something to drink? Some tea? "
" I don't want tea" said Clary, with muffled force " I want to find my mother. And then I want to find out who took her in the first place, and I want to kill them." 
"Unfortunately," said Hodge " we're all out of bitter revenge at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing.” ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“Isn’t it a funny thing, the more vigorously we say we love a person, the more vigorous will also be the emotion of our hate towards them?  Oh, the irony of love.”  Stephanie Schneider

“Please don't follow in my footsteps. I'm already knee-deep in them, and am sinking rapidly...” ― Tony James Slater

“Welcome home. Now leave me alone.” ― Trish Doller, Something Like Normal

“Nature has so much to do in this world, and is engaged in generating such a vast variety of co-existent productions, that she must surely be now and then too flurried and confused to distinguish between the different processes that she is carrying on at the same time. Starting from this point of view, it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the good lady suffered the consequences of a vegetable preoccupation in the mind of the Mother of us all.” ― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

“You jerk!”  I shouted, and then I kissed him.  Stephanie Schneider

“I was tired of this silly joking about my 'speaking countenance'. I could keep a secret as well as anyone. Poirot had always persisted in the humiliating belief that I am a transparent character and that anyone can read what is passing in my mind.” ― Agatha Christie, Curtain

“When in doubt, bluff.” ― Sarah MacLean, A Rogue by Any Other Name

"A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing." - Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Excuse me, I would laugh with you over my slipping on the bar of soap, it was funny after all; but you see, I’m too busy crying, at the moment.” - Stephanie Schneider

"Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it." - Bill Cosby

Lloyd: Hit me with it! Just give it to me straight! I came a long way just to see you, Mary. The least you can do is level with me. What are my chances? 
Mary: Not good. 
Lloyd: You mean, not good like one out of a hundred? 
Mary: I'd say more like one out of a million. 
[pause] 
Lloyd: So you're telling me there's a chance... *YEAH!* - Dumb and Dumber movie quote

““When I told you to make a right, I assumed you knew which right I was referring to.” I said, sitting in the ditch on top of the overturned car.”  Stephanie Schneider

"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

"A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life." - Hugh Sidey

"Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs." - Christopher Morley

“Maybe next time, instead of shouting “Oh, deer!” you could just say “Animal!” for clarification purposes.”  Stephanie Schneider

"Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth." - Victor Borge

"Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor." - Eric Sevareid

“Not living in fear is a great gift, because certainly these days we do it so much. And do you know what I like about comedy? You can't laugh and be afraid at the same time — of anything. If you're laughing, I defy you to be afraid.” -Stephen Colbert

“When I laugh sarcastically, it is not to mock your words, but actually a moment of mocking my own sanity.”  Stephanie Schneider

I'm struck by how laughter connects you with people. It's almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you're just howling with laughter. Laughter is a force for democracy. - John Cleese

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. -Francis Bacon

Let me assure you that the humourless as a bunch don't just not know what's funny, they don't know what's serious. They have no common sense, either, and shouldn't be trusted with anything. - Martin Amis

“I thought I was hilarious until I heard you open your mouth.”  Stephanie Schneider

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