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Quotes About Humor

Así es cómo se me ocurrieron las bufonadas. Era mi última posibilidad de ganarme el afecto de las personas.
~ Osamu Dazai
This was how I happened to invent my clowning.
~ Osamu Dazai
The source of our laughter is the small stone that tumbled into a corner of Pandora's box.
~ Osamu Dazai
The roar of laughter at civilization's end.
~ Osamu Dazai
I thought, "As long as I can make them laugh, it doesn't matter how, it'll be all right. If I succeed in that, the human beings probably won't mind it too much if I remain outside their lives. The one thing I must avoid is becoming offensive in their eyes: I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky.
~ Osamu Dazai
The more naked a person's words are, the more comical, broken, and made-up they sound.
~ Osamu Dazai
I thought, "As long as I can make them laugh, it doesn't matter how, I'll be all right". If I succeed in that, the human beings probably won't mind it too much if I remain outside their lives. The one thing I must avoid is becoming offensive in their eyes: I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky.
~ Osamu Dazai
My wife] called, "Pochi, Pochi, your supper's ready," and laughed as she said, "You may have a personality disorder." A disgusting thought came to mind, "They say that the dog comes to resemble its owner.
~ Osamu Dazai
Being able to laugh at ourselves and at the comical aspects of sex will take the pressure off the whole experience.
~ Unknown
Having a good sense of humor about sex will keep things in perspective.
~ Unknown
An epigram is a gag that's played Carnegie Hall.
~ Oscar Levant
I envy people who drink—at least they know what to blame everything on.
~ Oscar Levant
Mom JIMMY What if the word yes meant no? MOM Go to sleep, you have school tomorrow JIMMY No MOM Quit playing games with me JIMMY Yes
~ Oscar Peterson
AMBER I'll be black in a minute. Mike Huh?!? AMBER I meant back! Freaking autocorrect. As far as I know, I won't be black anytime soon. Lol!
~ Oscar Peterson
Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders.
~ Oscar W. Firkins
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
~ Oscar Wilde
Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman.
~ Oscar Wilde
Mrs. Allonby: They say, Lady Hunstanton, that when good Americans die they go to Paris.Lady Hunstanton: Indeed? And when bad Americans die, where do they go to?Lord Illingworth: Oh, they go to America.
~ Oscar Wilde
I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.
~ Oscar Wilde
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
~ Oscar Wilde
Bigamy is having one husband or wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
~ Oscar Wilde
I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.
~ Oscar Wilde
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
~ Oscar Wilde
I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
~ Oscar Wilde