Quotes About Humor

Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously.

Only after a while did it occur to me (in spite of the chilly silence which surrounded me) that my story was not of the tragic sort, but rather of the comic variety. At any rate that afforded me some comfort.

Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry.

Is not parody the eternal lot of man?

And then I realized how powerless I was to revoke my own joke when throughout my life as a whole I was involved in a joke much more vast (all-embracing for me) and utterly irrevocable.

To take seriously something so unserious means to lose all one's own seriousness

Promatra njihova usta koja se otvaraju sva istodobno, usta koja melju, izbacuju rije?i i bez prestanka praskaju u smijeh (zagonetka: kako se žene koje se me?usobno ne slušaju mogu smijati onome što govore?).

humor can only exist when people are still capable of recognizing some border between the important and the unimportant. and nowadays this border has become unrecognizable.

Nós compreendemos há muito tempo que não era mais possível mudar este mundo, nem remodelá-lo, nem impedir sua infeliz trajetória para a frente. Havia uma única resistência possível: não levá-lo a sério. Mas constato que nossas gozações perderam seu poder.

Humor: the divine flash that reveals the world in its moral ambiguity and man in his profound incompetence to judge others; humor: the intoxicating relativity of human things; the strange pleasure that conies of the certainty that there is no certainty. But humor, to recall Octavio Paz, is the great invention of the modern spirit. It has not been with us forever, and it won't be with us forever either. With a heavy heart, I imagine the day when Panurge no longer makes people laugh.

a humor az emberi dolgok viszonylagosságának mámora; különös gyönyör?ség, mely abból a bizonyosságból fakad, hogy nincs bizonyosság.

Tereza burst out laughing Thomas laughed with her

O humor não é uma prática imemorial do homem; é uma invenção ligada ao nascimento do romance. O humor, portanto, não é o riso, a troça, a sátira, mas uma espécie particular de cómico (...)

O humor: o relâmpago divino que descobre o mundo na sua ambiguidade moral e o homem na sua profunda incompetência para julgar os outros; o humor: a embriaguez da relatividade das coisas humanas; o estranho prazer resultante da certeza de que não há certeza.

Tomarse en serio algo tan poco serio significa perder la seriedad.

Some day I'm gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.

Laughter is an instant vacation.

You don't need to travel, laughter is an instant vacation

A man falls down a flight of stairs and somebody rushes over to him and asks, Did you miss a step? No, he answers, I hit every one of them!

Jews don't drink much because it interferes with their suffering.

The minute you celebrate narcissism, which on one hand is very complex, it's very ridiculous. You have to love oneself with humor.

I love Andre 3000 from OutKast. I think we'd complement each other, but I'm hoping he's got a good sense of humour.

In bed watching Family Guy. Love this show.! So hilarious! Stewie is my favorite :) love his accent.

I'd love to do situation comedy - it's the best job in show business.