Quotes About Humor

Your own shortcomings are the best ground to grow your sense of humor.

They got a manure machine in there, " Keller said. He went up to the barn and peeked through a hole between tow boards. "On wheels. It's fun to ride sometimes, when you don't care how you smell.

Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

I tried to blow a yellow jacket out and now it's wearing a bow tie in its mouth.

Humor relieves the tension between what we see or desire but repress in order to sustain a survivable illusion about the world we live in. As such it's always potent stuff, and dangerous.

People need to make sure they have a good humor spark plug inside them that can be ignited at any moment when required.

Is dishwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it.

I can't begin to tell you how fulfilling the perennial nature of 'Elf' on television has been for me. It's great to be able to connect parents with children both emotionally and through humor.

'Hill Street, ' because of the wacky nature of many of our characters, really allowed us to indulge a kind of cheek-to-jowl juxtaposition of high drama with very low humor.

No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.

I don't know what's more exhausting about parenting: the getting up early, or acting like you know what you're doing.

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

Twitter allowed me to talk about parenting in short snippets and find out what I really wanted to say about it, which is that I'm a dad who had no idea what he's doing.

Parenting is the greatest of hum-a-few-bars-and-I'll-fake-it skills.

Kids are flat-out freaking hilarious if you are paying attention. Not just my kid, but every kid.

At least grandmas don't look for angles like other people. Jo

If I hear any more loud voices, you will both be auctioned off on eBay. I could use the extra money.

I used to wonder why I had hair on my legs, but now I know it's for my toddler sons and daughters to pull themselves up off the ground with as I scream in pain.

I figure when my husband comes home from work, if the kids are still alive, then I've done my job.

Kindness is really important to me in finding my own prince - so are patience and a sense of humor. Without those qualities he's no Prince Charming!

everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death

The best joke-tellers are those who have the patience to wait for conversation to come around to the point where the jokes in their repertoire have application.

I almost did the knee-jerk thing of saying Judge Judy is funny to me, but I just don't have the patience for the format of that show.