Quotes About Humor

The healthy brain theory proposes that our minds are clusters of fitness indicators: persuasive salesmen like art, music, and humor, that do their best work in courtship, where the most important deals are made. We

A capacity for comedy reveals a capacity for creativity. It plays upon our intense neophilia. It circumvents our tendencies towards boredom. Creativity is a reliable indicator of intelligence, energy, youth, and proteanism. Humor is attractive, and that is why it evolved.

It hapens very often that parents think they are worred about the progress a boy is making. they do not realise that all boys are numskulls with o branes which is not surprising when you look at the parents really the whole thing goes on and on and there is no stoping it it is a vicious circle.

Shaga: How would you like to die, little man? Tyrion: In my bed, at the age of eighty with a belly full of wine and a woman's mouth around my cock.

There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.

The fly that does not want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly-swat.

No trates de mostrarte excesivamente ingenioso para evitar que un hombre por naturaleza ingenioso perciba por casualidad que en realidad eres exactamente como quisieras que él fuera.

People love to admit they have bad handwriting or that they can't do math. And they will readily admit to being awkward 'I'm such a klutz' But they will never admit to having a poor sense of humor or being a bad driver.

What would you like to drink? You do drink, don't you? -Oh, sure! I drink like a fish!

There are no mothers-in-law in ballet.

For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever-present sense of humor it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in providence.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

A mind of the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.

Take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then say it with the utmost levity.

When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one." — George Bernard Shaw, playwright (to Winston Churchill) "Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one." — Churchill's response

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.

I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast.