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Quotes About Humor

I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
~ Vera Farmiga
What do little birdies see when they get knocked unconscious?
~ Steven Wright
It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously
~ Oscar Wilde
The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves.
~ Robert Olen Butler
The world likes humor, but it treats it patronizingly. It decorates its serious artists with laurel, and its wags with Brussels sprouts.
~ E. B. White
I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, 'Hey, the sign says you're open 24 hours.' He said, 'Yes, but not in a row.'
~ Steven Wright
Laugh at your worries and insecurities. View your anxieties with humor. It will be difficult at first, but you'll gradually get used to it.
~ Paulo Coelho
A friend of mine is into Voodoo Acupuncture. You don't have to go. You'll just be walking down the street and . . . ooooohhhhhh, that's much better.
~ Steven Wright
So I was getting into my car and this bloke says to me, 'Can you give me a lift?' I said, 'Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it!'
~ Tim Vine
If you can't hear me, it's because I'm in parentheses.
~ Steven Wright
since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way - with new ideas, insight, humor, or vocabulary.
~ Joan Aiken
I'll tell you what makes my blood boil?... Crematoriums.
~ Tim Vine
So I told my mum that I'd opened a theatre. She said, "Are you having me on?" I said, "Well I'll give you an audition, but I'm not promising you anything."
~ Tim Vine
It doesn't matter what temperature the room is, it's always room temperature.
~ Steven Wright
They say we're 98% water. We're that close to drowning. I like to live on the edge.
~ Steven Wright
Yesterday I saw a chicken crossing the road. I asked it why. It told me it was none of my business.
~ Steven Wright
You have options when it comes to abortion now. It's not like 1955 when you just had to kick her down a staircase and hope for the best... you feed her a tapeworm and hope it takes a left at the Y.
~ Doug Stanhope
In the wise words of Mahatma Gandhi: have a sense of humor.
~ Drew Chadwick
The South has more of a disproportionate amount of irony on T-shirts than any other region in the country.
~ David Cross
You can always tell somebody's sense of humor by if they like this movie or not.
~ Kurt Russell
humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
My wife... its difficult to say what she does... she sells seashells on the seashore.
~ Milton Jones
Having a baby is like a DUI from the universe.
~ Natasha Leggero
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
~ Josh Billings