Quotes About Humor

So a sense of humor is not merely a matter of trying to tell jokes or make puns, trying to be funny in a deliberate fashion. It involves seeing the basic irony of the juxtaposition of extremes, so that one is not caught taking them seriously, so that one does not seriously play their game of hope and fear. This is why the experience of the spiritual path is so significant, why the practice of meditation is the most insignificant experience of all.

Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.

Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate, and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.

Someone who doesn't take herself too seriously and can be a goofball. Because everyone's a nerd inside, I don't care how cool you are.

If there were an international butt competition, Eric would win, hands down—or cheeks up.

Sookie, my little bullet-sucker" Eric, my big bullshitter

Ha," I said. "Oh, ha-ha. Yeah, 'cause they love me. You see how many vampires are up here? Zero, right?" One," said Eric, stepping out of the stairwell.

May I borrow a cup of cyanide?

Wait a minute, can't you? I've only got three hands.

You know what they say about consultants, don't you? They know all the moves in the Kama Sutra but don't know any women.

I can't screw up Alabama... We are number 48 in everything and Arkansas and Mississippi aren't going anywhere.

I have nothing against old people. I want to be one myself one day.

I felt as though I were in the presence of one of God's more complicated pranks.

One of my earliest childhood memories is getting birdshot picked out of my backside by my mother, Mary. My mother would say, "Tom, how come I'm always picking this stuff out of Francis's behind?" My father, who always called her Mame, would say, "Because the boy doesn't run fast enough, Mame." I get my size

INCEST, n. In many parts of the Bible Belt, the most popular form of dating

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

Se tivesses acreditado na minha brincadeira de dizer verdades, teria ouvido verdades que teimo em dizer brincando. Muitas vezes falei como o palhaço, mas nunca desacreditei da seriedade da platéia que sorria.

The cat that laughs is crazy. Man who does not laugh is below. (Le chat qui rit est un fou. - Homme qui ne rit est dessous.)

I'll eat my head.

Tongue; well that's a wery good thing when it an't a woman's.

Oh gracious, why wasn't I born old and ugly?

It was a turkey! He could never have stood upon his legs, that bird! He would have snapped 'em off short in a minute, like sticks of sealing wax.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!