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Quotes About Humor

Waiting for your buddies to get laid is right up there with hanging out in a dentist's office.
~ Thom Jones, The Roadrunner
Wenn Man an den Tod denkt, alles ist lächerlich. (When one thinks of death, everything is ridiculous).
~ Thomas Bernhard
Whoever can't laugh doesn't deserve to be taken seriously...
~ Thomas Bernhard
Hayat tasavvurunun yüce sanat? gibi yaÅŸaman?n ve var olman?n daha yüce sanat?n?n da alaya al?nd???, kabare gibi bir dünyada ya??yoruz biz. Felsefe kabare gibi. Din kabare gibi. SavaÅŸ, devasa bir ceset y???n?, sayg?deÄŸer beyefendi, bütünüyle yalan bir k?ta, bugün tüm bunlar ÅŸaka.
~ Thomas Bernhard
Das Fürchterliche muss sein Gelächter haben!
~ Thomas Bernhard
Whoever can't lough doesn't deserve to be taken seriously
~ Thomas Bernhard
A long, loud, and canorous peal of laughter.
~ Thomas de Quincey
I was court-martialed in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
~ Thomas Hardy
All laughing comes from misapprehension. Rightly looked at there is no laughable thing under the sun.
~ Thomas Hardy
He can blow the flute very well-that 'a can,' said a young married man, who having no individuality worth mentioning was known as 'Susan Tall's husband.
~ Thomas Hardy
At these the fellow-passengers laughed, except the solitary boy bearing the key and ticket, who, regarding the kitten with his saucer eyes, seemed mutely to say: All laughing comes from misapprehension. Rightly looked at there is no laughable thing under the sun.
~ Thomas Hardy
They say that a time comes when men laugh at misery through long acquaintance with it.
~ Thomas Hardy
Show Dr. Princi your teeth. That's right, let's see 'em all. Christ, Sparks, is that your tongue or are you swallowing a squirrel? Keep moving -
~ Thomas Harris
Are you looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis.
~ Thomas Harris
One Washington axiom, proved more times than the Pythagorean theorem, states that in the presence of oxygen, one loud fart with an obvious culprit will cover many small emissions in the same room, provided they are nearly simultaneous.
~ Thomas Harris
Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility
~ Thomas Jefferson
Yo no estoy acostumbrado a tomarme la vida a broma, querido marqués. La frivolidad no es lo mío, y menos aún en cuestión de travesuras; porque hay travesuras y bromas que deben tomarse muy, muy en serio…, o nunca saldrán bien. Una gran broma sólo llega a serlo cuando uno ha invertido en ella toda la seriedad del mundo.
~ Thomas Mann
Er een eind aan maken: maar zou dat niet haast een beetje heldhaftig zijn voor een 'paljas'? Het zal er wel op uitdraaien, ben ik bang, dat ik verder ga met leven, met eten en slapen, en me met het een of ander zoet te houden; en misschien zal ik er zo langzamerhand aan wennen en in schikken een 'ongelukkige en belachelijke figuur' te zijn.
~ Thomas Mann
?itaju?i te izjave kod svoje ku?e, konzul se nije mogao suzdržati od smiješka, jer uprkos bola koji se o?itovao u tim rije?ima, osje?ao se je u njima i neki šaljivi ponos. Znao je da je Tony Boddenbrook ostala dijete, i da je svoje vrlo odrasle doživljaje doživljavala najpre kao da pravo ne vjeruje, a onda djetinjasto ozbiljno i dijetinjasto važno, i što je glavno, s djetinjom otpornoš?u.
~ Thomas Mann
A schlemihl is a schlemihl. What can you make out of one? What can one make out of himself? You reach a point, and Profane knew he had reached it, where you know how much you can and cannot do. But every now and again he got attacks of acute optimism.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Well, ring-tailed rutabagas.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Do you remember, during the war, when Porky worked in a defense plant? He and Bugs Bunny. That was a good one too.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Listen my darling, here's the situation – Wait … Un gazz , I'm talkin to a robot here, right? Again. So! uh-huh! how you're doing? how long you been a robot … You wouldn't be Jewish, by any chance? Yeah, like when you were thirteen, did your parents give you a bot mitzvah?
~ Thomas Pynchon
For many people laughing is a way of being loud without having to say a thing.
~ Thomas Pynchon