Quotes About Humor

Well," David said, breaking a fry in half and examining the fluffy insides. "He runs a fertilizer plant." Stevie looked up at him sharply. Was he making fun of her parents? A pilot and someone who ran a crap plant?

I know what guano is," Janelle said in a warning tone. "But I don't want to hear about poop. I want crispy leaf fun.

Gaenor and Paul, her year twelve boyfriend, known to make out while eating shepherd's pie, which is not a euphemism.

The French are never serious. They juggle with principles, make fun of difficulties and have been walking the tightrope of virtuosity for ten centuries. A singular nation, you know.

Evelyn: Patience is a virtue... Rick: Not right now, it isn't.

I'm Australian; I know how to use a shotgun!

Good words were the difference between Emily eating well and not. And what she had found worked best were not facts or arguments but words that tickled people's brains for some reason, that just amused them. Puns, and exaggerations, and things that were true and not at the same time.

One is taught to refrain from irony, because mankind does tend to take it literally.

And his face—the way he laughed—why he didn't look like no fool at all, boys. But just as if he'd waked up!

Why would I want to get depressed by watching TV? I could do that just by stepping on the scale every morning.

What do you call a dog on a leash? A meal on a string.

RYSSDAL: Suck on that, Elon Musk. TONY: No, no, I love Elon, he's a good guy, but he does have some catching up to do.

Scherz ist die drittbeste Tarnung. Die zweitbeste: Sentimentalität. Aber die beste und sicherste Tarnung ist immer noch die blanke und nackte Wahrheit. Komischerweise. Die glaubt niemand.

Ich finde sie lustig, ihre heutigen Tänze, lustig zum Schauen, diese existentialistische Hopserei, wo jeder für sich allein tanzt, seine eignen Faxen schwingt, verwickelt in die eignen Beine, geschüttelt wie von einem Schüttelfrost, alles etwas epileptisch, aber lustig, sehr temperamentvoll, muß ich sagen, aber ich kann das nicht.

Wenn ich so allein bin, siehst du, und mich an alles erinnere, das ist das Schlimmste, daß man allein nicht darüber lachen kann, oder dann ist es nur so ein böses und bitteres Lachen, so daß man später über genau die gleichen Dinge doch wieder heult.

The ladies' mauve-dyed hair interspersed with the bald patches of the gentlemen, who had taken off their panama hats—they must have broken out of an old-age home, I thought, but I didn't say it.

Scherz ist die drittbeste Tarnung. Die zweitbeste: Sentimentalität. (...) Aber die beste und sicherste Tarnung (finde ich) ist immer noch die blanke und nackte Wahrheit. Komischerweise. Die glaubt niemand.

Wenn ich so allein bin, siehst du, und mich an alles erinnere, das ist das Schlimme, daß man allein nicht darüber lachen kann, oder dann ist es nur so ein böses und bitteres Lachen, so daß man später über genau die gleichen Dinge doch wieder heult.

Wenn ich so allein bin, siehst du, und mich an alles erinnere, das ist das Schlimme, daß man allein nicht darüber lachen kann, oder dann ist es nur so ein böses und bitteres Lachen, so daß man später über genau die gleichen Dinge doch wieder heult (S. 173).

Every day at precisely noon a fellow turns up on a busy street corner with a green flag and a bugle. He waves the flag, blows a few notes on the bugle, utters a mysterious incantation, and goes away. A cop, observing this exercise over a period of weeks, finally gets overwhelmed by curiosity. What the hell are you doing? asks the cop. Keeping giraffes away, says the fellow. The cop says, But there are no giraffes around here. The fellow says, Doing a good job, ain't I?

THE JOKE is on me. I filled this weekend with friends so that I would not go down into depression, not knowing that I should have turned the corner and be writing poems.

I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.

My life has been one great big joke, A dance that's walked, A song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke, When I think about myself.

The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.