Quotes About Humor

The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.

Grossness is not difficult to define: it is obtrusive and objectionable pleasantry.

Pat Healy Those goofy bastards are about the best thing I've got going.

Warren Franks and Beans Franks and Beans

Marty This pretentious ponderous collection of religious rock psalms is enough to prompt the question, What day did the Lord create Spinal Tap, and couldn't he have rested on that day too'

Make me the father, O Lord, who will show my sons enough of a sense of humor, so that they will always be serious, but never take themselves too seriously. Give them humility, so they will always remember the simplicity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength.

At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour.

I once got hit with a taser at a concert and everyone thought I was dancing. Now I have to do that dance, at every show for the rest of my life, or admit that a taser can damage the Thom Yorke. —Thom Yorke, whispering to himself

I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world. They're just sitting there. I can hit them with a two-by-four.

Get the eggs Get the flan in the face

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I remembered who was telling me this. — Emo Philips

When I hear someone touting the cloud as a magic-bullet for all computing problems, I silently replace "cloud" with "clown" and carry on with a zen-like smile.

Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most loved manager, Casey Stengel, spoke gibberish. In this lazy sport, only the pitcher pours sweat. Then he takes three days off.

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.

The only way to reform some people is to chloroform them.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Sarcasm is the language of the devil, for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; but his whole life is already a treason and a stratagem.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.