Quotes About Humor

Happiness is discovering the prune juice your doctor ordered you to drink has fermented.

I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.

Happiness is a dry martini and a good woman ... or a bad woman.

No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds.

Of all the things God created, I am often most grateful He created laughter.

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.

If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.

Happiness is the twinkle in your grandmother's eye as you reverse the tractor off her legs.

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.

You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused.

If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.

I'm trying to, with my stand-up and with the podcast, give people these little stupid things to give them happiness. I know that sounds lofty or like I'm starting a cult, but I kind of feel that way.

A well-balanced person is one who finds both sides of an issue laughable.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you cry. And vice versa.

Happiness is getting a brown gravy stain on a brown dress.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.

Though the clown is often deadpan, he is a connoisseur of laughter.

I never would have made it if I could not have laughed. It lifted me momentarily out of this horrible situation, just enough to make it livable.

No man can be merry unless he is serious.

Laughter is by definition healthy.