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Quotes About Humor

Lawrence says, "I have an old maiden aunt too, and her place smells just like this. What [i] is [/i] that smell, anyway?" "Age and desperation?" I suggest. "Bitterness and despair?" Vanessa says. "Baked fish?" says Harry. "She does like tilapia," I admit.
~ Claire LaZebnik
If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
~ Clarence Darrow
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
~ Clarence Darrow
I have never killed anyone, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
~ Clarence Darrow
I went to a fortune-teller who told me about all kinds of good things that were about to happen to me, and on the way home in the taxi I thought it'd be really funny if a taxi hit me and ran me over and I died after hearing all those good things
~ Clarice Lispector
Love is an attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-detachment -- a way of looking at one's existence, one's misfortune, or one's discomfort. If you really love, if you really know how to laugh, the result is the same you forget yourself.
~ Unknown
all in good fun,
~ Claudia Rankine
Support your right to arm bears.
~ Cleveland Amory
Why do politicians have one more brain cell than horses do?" Riddles were her favorites, he guessed. He said that he didn't know why. "So they won't shit on the street during parades." He
~ Clifford Irving
on the list of priorities my ass is number one, and my ass is also number two. My soul's in a distant third place.
~ Clifford Irving
There's a second funny bone in the human body that is controlled by nasal muscles. The third funny bone is in the ears.
~ Unknown
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke and that the joke is oneself.
~ Unknown
There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.
~ Clint Eastwood
On a scale of one to ten you're a two, and that's cuz I've never seen a one.
~ Clint Eastwood
Take your work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously
~ Clint Eastwood
I must say one thing about southern down-home brewed coffee with chicory. If you have worms, you'll never have them again.
~ Clive Cussler
Funny Debates at both Cambridge and Oxford eventually helped to convince me that the only place to be amusing is in a serious context.
~ Clive James
That, in fact, was the joke that killed him: he was arrested soon after making
~ Clive James
Whoever said "Wagner's music isn't as bad as it sounds" was as wrong as he was funny,
~ Clive James
But the time has already arrived when such a joke does not register as funny. What have we gained, except a classroom in which no one need feel excluded?
~ Clive James
even today, when I have a cold, it is the worst cold in the history of the house.
~ Clive James
Common sense and sense of humor are the same thing moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
~ Unknown
I'd like to do a film which is funny.
~ Clive Owen
Benjamin Franklin had another suggestion for the vice president: "His Superfluous Excellency.
~ Cokie Roberts