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Quotes About Humor

Mrs Pungent McShark was a horrible soul, Her face resembled a squashed sausage roll, She was bitter and twisted, heartless and cruel, With breath that smelt worse than a septic cesspool.
~ Jason Hall
It only seems like it would be funny to enter a bank wearing a ski mask.
~ Jason Love
Nothing," she said. "But I've seen better handwriting from animals without opposable thumbs.
~ Jason Pinter
If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area.
~ Jason Segel
Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list.
~ Jasper Carrott
Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.
~ Jasper Fforde
You'll like it here; everyone is quite mad.
~ Jasper Fforde
There are people who can make us laugh even when they don't intend to, largely because their very presence pleases us, and so it's easy enough to set us off, simply seeing them and being in their company and hearing them is all it takes, even if they're not saying anything very extraordinary or are even deliberately spouting nonsense, which we nevertheless find funny.
~ Javier Marías
Perhaps it was his wife who mainly made him laugh, for there are people who can make us laugh even when they don't intend to, largely because their very presence pleases us, and so it's easy enough to set us off, simply seeing them and being in their company and hearing them is all it takes, even if they're not saying anything very extraordinary or are even deliberately spouting nonsense, which we nevertheless find funny.
~ Javier Marías
todo puede ser ridículo o trágico según quién lo cuente y cómo se cuente
~ Javier Marías
From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!
~ Dr. Seuss
Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise
~ E.E. Cummings
Pull, my finger please.
~ E.E. Cummings
We had a joke, Langley and I: Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.
~ E.L. Doctorow
I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.
~ E.M. Forster
Perfect Tommy: Pictures don't lie. Reno: The hell they don't. I met my first wife that way
~ Earl Mac Rauch
Cake and tea or death?
~ Eddie Izzard
I am a professional transvestite, so I can run about in heels and not fall over. Cause if a woman falls over wearing heels, that's embarrassing. But if a bloke falls over wearing heels, you have to kill yourself. It's the end of your life.
~ Eddie Izzard
And then earlier than that there were the crusades. The crusades were totally fucked. Richard the Lionheart, who had the heart of a lion as well as his own. He ripped it out of the lion, and the lion was left with a bicycle pump and not much to do.
~ Eddie Izzard
Could adults actually deal with a weird monster under their bed? I think if the monster started moving around, then- well we'd get out of bed and we'd get a frying pan, and then we'd beat the crap out of the monster under the bed. Or we'd get a broom and poke the monster out. No, we'd lock the door and set fire to the house.
~ Eddie Izzard
Jesus sandals
~ Eddie Izzard
Satire is enjoyable compensation for being forced to think.
~ Edgar Johnson
A satirist is never certain whether he/she will be acclaimed or punished.
~ Edgar Johnson
Satire is the antidote to Pollyanna and Dr. Pangloss. It focuses our gaze sharply upon the the contrast between things as they are and as they should be.
~ Edgar Johnson