Quotes About Humor

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.

Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.

Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.

Charlie Chaplin said something to the effect that humor is an act of defiance, that we must laugh in the face of our helplessness in the forces of nature or go insane. And where is he now? Dead.

Knowing comedy is knowing human nature.

We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature, or go insane.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.

George Burns . . . the only man I know who does fool Mother Nature.

But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.

The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... The movie is vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't laugh. When we laugh, it's merely human nature.

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

I crack jokes and play games and that's really more my nature than being cold.

'American Dad' is, by its nature, much more political.

I remember being fascinated by the very nature of comedy from the age of 10; why is this funny, and that isn't?

Nature has a pretty sick sense of humor.

Wit is the most dangerous talent you can possess. It must be guarded with great discretion and good-nature, otherwise it will create you many enemies.

When you look at the average American you realize there's nothing nature enjoys more than a good joke.

I know the nature of comedy, and you never know what will happen with the next movie or whether people will find it funny.

You might be a redneck if you've ever stood in line to get your picture taken with a freak of nature.

That's the nature of my [stand-up] act: black man with a white baby.

And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.

I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.

I love nature, I just don't want to get any of it on me.