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Quotes About Humor

Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.
~ Stanley Cavell
If a kid calls his grandma "Mommy" and his mama "Pam", he's going to jail!
~ Chris Rock
I hang out with the nerdy people they have a different sense of humor than most kids.
~ Liam Aiken
I talk a lot about women in my act, 'cause let's face it -- if I was hungry, I would talk about food.
~ Adam Ferrara
The Doctor says, "You'll live to be 60!" "I AM 60!" "See, what did I tell you?"
~ Henny Youngman
That woman in the shampoo commercial - she's happy. She's... she's too happy.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
it's dreadful when two people's senses of humor are antagonistic. I don't believe there's any bridging that gulf!
~ Jean Webster
2 Guys in a health club, one is putting on pantyhose. "Since when do you wear pantyhose?" "Since my wife found it in the glove compartment!"
~ Henny Youngman
American humor ... is not subtle. It is something that makes you laugh the moment you hear it, you have not to think a scrap.
~ Elinor Glyn
Every year, hundreds of thousands of people try their hand at this demanding profession (humor columnist). After a few months, almost all of them have given up and gone back to the ninth grade.
~ Dave Barry
Attitude, humor and action (persistence) will whip fears and rejection. Fear of failure doesn't exist, if you believe it doesn't.
~ Jeffrey Gitomer
Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. Its a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.
~ Billy Collins
Humor, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its objects in a genial and abiding light.
~ Edwin Percy Whipple
Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.
~ Vinton Cerf
I'm a vegetarian, I'm not strict. I eat fish. And duck, but they're nearly fish aren't they.
~ Bill Bailey
It's difficult isn't it, when you're in a Mosque and everyone's praying and you really enjoy leapfrog.
~ Milton Jones
If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
~ Billy Connolly
If you buy your husband or boyfriend a video camera, for the first few weeks he has it, lock the door when you go to the bathroom. Most of my husband's early films end with a scream and a flush.
~ Rita Rudner
If I wanted to be bored by 6,000 pages of unreadable dreck, I'd read War and Peace four times.
~ Lewis Black
I've got a dope sense of humor, brah.
~ alan
By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the gravest philosopher.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
My husband is very funny and his humor has gotten us through a lot. He's good at defusing me.
~ Julie Bowen
With their charm and legendary sense of humor, the British directly or indirectly paved the way for a large number of European compromises.
~ Jean-Claude Juncker
Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.
~ Abraham Lincoln