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Quotes About Humor

His sense of humor is purely cheap vaudeville, yet everyone falls for it.
~ Lisa Lutz
I often use humor as a tool in my writing, and sometimes that works and sometimes it sits alone just as a funny line.
~ Hannes Holm
The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.
~ Michael York
I like girls who are funny with a warped sense of humor.
~ Robert Buckley
Humor, danger and a twisted tangle of unlikely prophecies make for a page-turning adventure.
~ Gail Z. Martin
I could tell you what my good qualities are. There's my honesty; I have a very wacky, kind of dry humor that a lot of people don't get to see.
~ Shannen Doherty
Our sense of humor is a gift from God which should be controlled as well as cultivated.
~ J. Oswald Sanders
I think I have a good sense of humor, but I'm not, like, a joke-teller. I get the jokes, which is sometimes half the battle. Believe me, I have no idea why anyone hires me.
~ Mila Kunis
I thought of several alec smart remarks, but you should humor crazy people when you're at their mercy; it's a rule.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I feel very very old. My hair hurts. I have buttocks all over my body and I can't even smoke properly any more. I don't have lungs, I just have two poppadoms in here.
~ Dylan Moran
I was pretty much a child of Monty Python. I grew up loving that type of humor and even structured a lot of humor in the same fashion.
~ Michael Jai White
Anxiety and hostility seem to be a great part of good and bad humor. Examining humor too closely does seem to destroy it.
~ Matt Groening
I've known Alan Zweibel since 1975, and I've always had this sneaking suspicion that he might possess a sense of humor. After reading CLOTHING OPTIONAL, I'm almost sure he does.
~ Rob Reiner
The Next Right Thing has humanity, humor, and insight to burn. Author Dan Barden takes the clay of the California hard-boiled novel and shapes it into something new.
~ George Pelecanos
As you meditate, you'll develop a sense of humor so that you can laugh at yourself, which you need to do in this world.
~ Frederick Lenz
being funny is a way of being liked and a way of dealing with sadness.
~ Wendy Wasserstein
We often laughed at others in our house, and I picked up the craft of being polite while people were present and laughing later if there was anything to laugh about.
~ Muriel Spark
I would imagine that Bret would taste like a warm goat cheese, and Jemaine would taste like harvati with dill. Hmm...I'm hungry actually.
~ Kristen Schaal
Oh man, the car could just burst into flames right now and this would be the way to go, huh guys?
~ Kristen Schaal
Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse.
~ Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
~ Brendan Behan
That's why when I send a postcard I quiz people. "Hey, did you get that postcard?" "Yeah, yeah yeah." "Well what'd I say?" "Uh, you were havin-" "I was in jail"
~ Jim Gaffigan
I went to a 7-11 and asked for a 2x4 and a box of 3x5's. The clerk said, "ten-four."
~ Steven Wright
Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion.
~ Edward Young