Quotes About Humor

Groucho Marx said, "I find television very educational. Every time someone turns on a set I go into the other room and read a book.

Made people laugh. Dennis had a way of making everybody lighten up when things were tense. How could you get down on yourself when there's this crazy guy on the team who had dyed his hair with a big yellow happy face?

She laughed merrily. "What can you do but laugh?

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.

I'll sue you," the door said as the first screw fell out. Joe Chip said, "I've never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.

When he turned on the tape-transport once more, Arctor was saying, -- as near as I can figure out, God is dead. Luckman answered, I didn't know He was sick.

Joe Chip said, 'I've never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.

Christ on the crapper

That goat," Rachael said. "You love the goat more than me. More than you love your wife, probably. First the goat, then your wife, then last of all—" She laughed merrily. "What can you do but laugh?

It makes living a funny joke with nobody around to laugh.

However, I do think one could say this; rather than having it read: Ubik, by Philip K. Dick, one could put it this way: PHILIP K. DICK By Ubik In a sense I am joking, of course, but in a sense I am not.

Nós dois caímos na gargalhada. Quando você está quase louco de dor, você ri do que puder.

A dream woke me, Arctor said. A religious dream. In it there was this huge clap of thunder, and all of a sudden the heavens rolled aside and God appeared and His voice rumbled at me-what the hell did He say?-oh yeah. 'I am vexed with you, my son' He said. He was scowling. I was shaking, in the dream, and looking up, and I said, 'What'd I do now, Lord?' And He said, 'You left the cap off the toothpaste tube again.' And then I realized it was my ex-wife.

A man can be defined as an animal that carries a pocket handkerchief

Nella tua mente c'è qualcosa che nessun altro ha. Ma non si tratta di precognizione. Di cosa allora? Hai senso dell'umorismo fu la risposta di Gretchen.

Without a woman we'd discuss racing cars and horses and tell dirty jokes; no civilization.

Exchange between Arctor and Barris: "Now that my Olds is laid up indefinitely, Arctor said, "I've decided I should sell it and buy a Henway. What's a Henway? Barris said. (…) About three pounds, Arctor said.

For a guy with only one peeper, Olsen commented, you're doing okay. Morosely, he added: But you'd sure be up shit creek if you lost the other.

My horse … is pregnant. … What do you say to that? ... I say pretty soon you'll have two horses

Chuckling, Barris inspected his patty melt, which was melted imitation cheese and fake ground beef on special organic bread. "What kind of bread is this?" he asked.

All men come to resemble their fathers. That isn't a tragedy, but you need a hell of a sense of humour to handle it.

The dry high spirits of this destroyer of optimism make most optimists look damp and depressed.

If that was Tom Simms," said Audrey, "I'd say he was probably drunk and his mermaid was a porpoise.

Anyone who doesn't laugh has something on their conscience, you can be sure of that. - from: 'The Twelve Brothers