Quotes About Humor

Hey. Sometimes life is a shit flavored Popsicle.

Garcia wondered why people with JESUS stickers on their bumper always drove twenty miles per hour under the speed limit. If God was my co-pilot, he thought, I'd be doing a hundred and twenty.

Mickey Cray had been out of work ever since a dead iguana fell from a palm tree and hit him on the head.

I'm waiting for the day when Rush Limbaugh's pharmacist writes a book.

Nobody said he was Alvin Einstein.

Humor, particularly dark humor, is a common way to communicate true concern without the risk of feeling silly afterwards, and without overtly showing fear. But

THE MESSENGERS OF INTUITION Nagging feelings Persistent thoughts Humor Wonder Anxiety Curiosity Hunches Gut feelings Doubt Hesitation

The last time somebody was cremated, his ashes were sprinkled from a crop duster. We all ran for cover. We liked him fine, but we didn't want him all over our good clothes.

Sarcasm creates a chasm between yourself and others.

Willem tsk-tsks. "You Americans are so violent. I'm Dutch. The worst I will do is run her over with a bicycle.

I meant it to be jokey, but it came out sounding bitter

Then he gave a sad little smile. "Yo Mama better watch his back," he said.

Me, too," I said. And then we stopped talking for a while as Adam strummed an unfamiliar melody. I asked him what he was playing. "I'm calling it 'The Girlfriend's-Going-to-Juilliard-Leaving-My-Punk-Heart-in-Shreds Blues,' " he said, singing the title in an exaggeratedly twangy voice. Then he smiled that goofy shy smile that I felt like came from the truest part of him. "I'm kidding." "Good," I said.

A wicked sense of humor, this one.

The rain keeps up throughout the next day. "Lovely English summer we're having," everyone jokes.

Pete and Repeat went out in a boat. Pete fell out. Who was saved?

I like French fries? I sound like a slow child in a made-for-TV movie.

The day before I left, he informed me that he was "nine-tenths thirsty" and I almost peed myself laughing.

Step away from the banana chair, Maribeth texted back.

Then ne turns around, an impish grin on his face. "Warn me if you see police. This isn't quite legal.

I turn to Melanie. It's on her now. She narrows her green eyes at Willem. "If you rape or murder my friend, I will kill you." Willem tsk-tsks. "You Americans are so violent. I'm Dutch. The worst I wil do is run her over with a bicycle.

We may not care to play the part of public jesters ourselves, but the least we can do is to be grateful to those who are willing to become absurd for our benefit. Patronize them daintily, therefore, lest they backslide into propriety.

The three quickest ways of communication, cynics say, are telephone, telegraph, and tell-a-woman.

Ah, yes, I wrote the "Purple Cow"—I'm sorry, now, I wrote it!But I can tell you, anyhow,I'll kill you if you quote it.