Quotes About Humor

Isn't it funny how we all die at the same time? Always at the end of our lives. Why worry?

we can laugh at it sorrowfully

Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.

I do wish [Calvin Coolidge] did not look as if he had been weaned on a pickle.

I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.

My boyfriend calls me 'princess', but I think of myself more along the lines of 'monkey' and 'retard'.

Yeah, well, friends don't let friends drive Hondas.

And it was quite some butt, Mack had to admit, particularly in those blue jeans. It might wind up crushing a man, but he'd sure as hell die happy.

Live to learn, learn to laugh and laugh to live.

compassionate humor is an expression of Human Spirit. As you battle your own most primitive, defensive reactions, there is no better weapon.

If there was ever a bigger pansy than my father, it was Marcel Proust.

Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?

He thought for a while, and then said, "How do you fancy being my mute son, and I a . . . boot maker, maybe, from near Pellinor, seeking help for his son's affliction in Ettinor?" "Why not?" said Maerad, amused. "But do you know anything about boot-making?" "Ar, mistress," said Cadvan, winking in a rascally fashion. "You don't know what I know. My da was a cobbler, and his boots were much prized in Lirigon. And elsewhere, come to that.

This time I could be your lunatic daughter," said Maerad. "If that would help." She messed up her hair, trailing tresses across her face in witch-locked tangles, and adopted a slack-jawed expression. Cadvan laughed grimly. "I'm beginning to think that in some respects your education was quite thorough," he said.

You know the good thing about digging your own grave? You always make it just the right size.

work hard. I don't miss deadlines or pull diva fits when someone wants a change to the design, even an ill-advised one. From time to time, I catch up with old friends over lunch. I make jokes, even.

There is an old joke that went around- it goes, in the beginning God made man in His own image, and since the fall, man has been seeking to return the compliment.

Women's potential to disrupt patriarchy and make men vulnerable is why it's so easy for women to make men feel foolish or emasculated through the mildest humor that focuses on maleness and hints at women's power to stop going along with the status quo.

Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.

Anyone who calls it "sexual intercourse" can't possibly be interested in actually doing it. You might as well announce you're ready for lunch by proclaiming, "I'd like to do some masticating and enzyme secreting.

I have a dark sense of humor,' Fanny explained. 'What's that supposed to mean?' asked Honor. 'It means I'm funny once you get to know me,' Fanny said.

Everybody's serious but me.

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.

When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.