Quotes About Humor

He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie.

Dtui with her laundry-bin build was off the scale. There were no suitors queuing at her door. They wouldn't have to dig deep to find her kindness and humour, but they didn't even bring a spade.

Sarcasm," he said, "is like throwing a stick at your enemy when you've run out of bullets." Siri

Defensive driving' meant we travelled so slowly we were often overtaken by maimed war veterans on tricycles

Siri let out a silent puff of air. If he'd had a wife like this he would certainly have shot her long ago.

It occurred to him he was drunk as a flock of bridesmaids.

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.

Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

Quando si perdono il senso dell'umorismo e il coraggio nello stesso momento, è segno che anche la partita è persa.

Een wijf met een sigaar is als een onderzeeër met een balkon.

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes the whole universe for a vast practical joke.

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.

Amelia Bedelia and Alice followed

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

Where there's a ventriloquist, there's a dummy.

The chief defect of Henry KingWas chewing little bits of string.

No, she laughed." How on earth could that be done? If you try to laugh and say 'No' at the same time, it sounds like neighing — yet people are perpetually doing it in novels. If they did it in real life they would be locked up.

It is almost a joke, but a joke that nobody tells.

By the tits of Holy Agnes

And indeed, who can doubt that everything would be different and better, if only England were ruled by village idiots and their drunken friends?

People said— though this felt like a heresy— that they had seen Camille make Robespierre laugh.