Quotes About Humor

The ancient Greeks could laugh at themselves. The Romans could not. That is why France is a civilized society and Spain is not.

My Own Epitaph Life's a jest, and all things show it. I thought so once, and now I know it.

Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it.

Life's a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.

Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America

After reading a few pages you will begin to laugh at your own mistakes. With this lighthearted reaction it becomes easier to relax and not take yourself or your partner's mistakes so seriously.

You're a funny man, Post.

Life and love with the worlds worst dog

When told that there was to be the annual jamboree for academic philosophers in Cambridge in 1947, he said it was as if he had been told that there would be bubonic plague in Cambridge, and he would make sure he was in London — which he was!

Don't concentrate on becoming a better humor writer, just concentrate on being the best writer that you can become. If you're funny, the work will end up being funny. And if you're not funny, the work will still end up being good. Concentrate on being the most honest writer you can be, and let everything else follow--because it will.

Jonathan is a musician and my best friend. I hope he does not read that last part. I would never call him my best friend to his face. I am from Massachusetts and he is from Connecticut, and New Englanders do not say things like that.

Maine Humor" is a very specific subset of comedy. It consists mostly of men with flinty, Down East accents giving bad directions to people from away.

why is there no right-wing Daily Show? And we would glibly, pridefully answer that the conservative movement could not be funny because it was, by nature, authoritarian, prudish, untruthful, and dull.

Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie.

No touching Baby Jesus." "But we're his parents!" proclaimed Mary Beth, who was being generous to include poor Joseph under this appellation. "Mary Beth," Barb Wiggin said, "if you touch the Baby Jesus, I'm putting you in a cow costume.

one of the more sophisticated and accepting things about Europe, when it came to difficult decisions regarding sexual identity, was that the Europeans were so used to sexual differences that they had already begun to make fun of them.

When you write screenplays that don't get made, you lose your sense of humor about the bad movies that do get made

I didn't try to say the penis word for Elaine. Cock, I said to her.

Jack had not only heard Billy Crystal's joke; he was genuinely impressed by Billy's imitation of Jack-as-Melody. "Christ," he said.

May the spirit of death make a clerical error and forget you exist.

When the pig is over-roasted, Huzza for folly O! And the cheese is over-toasted, Huzza for folly O!

Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns.

On the prow of the wagon, in an attempt to attract business among the Quarterites, Ignatius taped a sheet of Big Chief paper on which he had printed in crayon: TWELVE INCHES (12) OF PARADISE. So far no one had responded to its message.

I don't drive. Will you kindly go away? I am waiting for my mother.