Quotes About Humor

What a difference a vowel makes! If his rents were but equal to his rants!

Jemima has just told me that the butcher says there is a bad sore throat very much about. I dare say I shall catch it; and my sore throats, you know, are always worse than anybody's.

Mrs. Jennings, Lady Middleton's mother, was a good-humoured, merry, fat, elderly woman, who talked a great deal, seemed very happy, and rather vulgar.

Pourquoi sommes-nous sur terre, sinon pour fournir quelque distraction à nos voisins, et en retour, nous égayer à leurs dépens ?

What a good-for-nothing-fellow Charles is to bespeak the stockings - I hope he will be too hot all the rest of his life for it! -

La juventud y el buen humor de la mañana forman una feliz analogía, de poderosos efectos; y si la alteración no es lo bastante fuerte como para mantener los ojos sin cerrar, seguro que estos se abrirán a una sensación de dolor suavizado y a una esperanza más clara.

Para qué vivimos sino para entretener a nuestros vecinos y reírnos de ellos a la vez?

I hadn't showered for days, Jack hadn't stopped crying in as many, and I was wondering what the return policy was on an infant.

I need a wife." Marjorie sat back down, her knees giving out from under her, unable to stop the audible gasp that escaped her mouth. "Not you, you ninny." Even though marriage to him was the last thing she wanted, Marjorie couldn't help but be slightly insulted by this last.

No seriously. She looks like a banana. She's wearing bright yellow and brown. It's making me hungry just looking at her.

If Meredith tries contradicting him, he laughs indulgently and pets her, stroking her arm or cheek as if she is a mischievous cat.

Clearly here was someone, like me, who tended to stumble through life and managed to see the funny side of situations. Someone who, like me, was fairly shy, yet not averse to expressing his opinions; someone who unlike me had a developed sense of his own worth and had the effrontery to convey it.

Opa used to tease her. He would open her mouth and look at her teeth, like she was a horse. Then he would say, 'Callie, you are more than ten and less than a hundred.' Well, she was a poor girl, in the end.

What do you think makes you start laughing and unable to stop?

He laughed with a kind of mirthless bark.

Sometimes these days Dean felt like picking up the phone and calling his buddy Michael Jordan and chortling with him over how he'd played Continental Dairy Industries off against National Milk, but of course he didn't have Michael's number.

If we do not laugh, we will cry. Crying will only make us hotter and sweatier. We Jews like to joke about death because what you laugh at and make familiar can no longer frighten you. Besides, Chayaleh, what else is there to do?

Is there anything else you need from me? Ranger asked. Not right now. There will come a time, Ranger said. Let me know when. And he disconnected. I opened the freezer and stuck my head in to cool off. If there'd been any more innuendo in that conversation, I could have fried an egg on my forehead.

I shot that sucker right in the gumpy. Grandma Mazur

Almost everybody I know has died," Grandma said. "Bunch of wimps.

I see you looking at my cookies,' my father said to Morelli. 'Don't even think about it. Go get your own cookies.

If she wasn't your grandmother I'd shoot her. Ranger

Gotta protect the little dudes. I tried an AK-47, but it wouldn't fit under my seat. I like the Uzi better, anyway. It looks better with the dress. The AK seems too casual to me.

Its always nice to have a stud muffin at the table.