Quotes About Humor

What's matter of importance is that if you can make your ownself laugh and smile.

Sticking a straw up your butt won't get rid of the constipation.

People will laugh at anything, except their own moronic self.

If I had free will, I would choose to be funnier.

One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.

McGough: I'm sorry. I'm afraid I've caught poetry. Mr Bones: Oh really? Well, don't worry, sir - I used to suffer from short stories. McGough: Really? When? Mr Bones: Oh, once upon a time...

Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.

Frances Bellamy thought the changes spoiled the poetry of it. He was a pretty stern guy. Everybody has some sense of humor, but I don't think he had much.

Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry.

Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies." Mrs Millamant: "Only with those in verse.... I never pin up my hair with prose."

A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests.

Nothing says you care for me better than offering to torture my enemies." He grinned. "No sense doing things halfhearted. And to think, some girls have to endure listening to poetry.

Let's be honest - Bill Murray was onto something when he laughed at Andie MacDowell's degree in 19th century French poetry in 'Groundhog Day'.

I've always felt that a really good joke, a really good one-liner, is a really good line of poetry. It's imagistic, it's compact, there is a rhythm to it.

Unlike Woody Allen, I would be happy to be part of any (poetry) club that would have me.

That's a rather flippant quote "drinking and writing bad poetry" from me. I mean, I said it, but I was doing other stuff too. I certainly didn't manage the full stretch of four years.

I don't know if anyone has ever mentioned this, we need to be careful with drugs! They're not just all fun and games! And of course poetry would be immeasurably worse without humor.

If I wouldn't of spent so much time shooting spit wads at my English teacher I'd know how to punctuate good thing I normally write poetry.

Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.

Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year.

I like a President who tells jokes instead of appointing them.

Walter Mondale has all the charisma of a speed bump.

Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.