Quotes About Humor

One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, "Bless you."

An atheist-laugh's a poor exchangeFor Deity offended.

Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.

I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is in Minerva's tower...I live still a collegiate student...and lead a monastic life, ipse mihi theatrum [sufficient entertainment to myself], sequestered from those tumults and troubles of the world...aulae vanitatem, fori ambitionem, ridere mecum soleo [I laugh to myself at the vanities of the court, the intrigues of public life], I laugh at all.

It's amazing how much funny stuff there is.... [A] river of rich comedic milk is flowing across the land, and as fast as I skim off the cream more cream appears.... I may be doomed to wade around forever in other people's pith. Not that it's such a bad life.

Cogito ergo dim sum. (Therefore I think these are pork buns.)

He also became known as one who was quick to take offense, even if spoken to in jest.

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.

There is no such place as Budapest. Perhaps you are thinking of Bucharest, and there is no such place as Bucharest, either.

recalled Mark Twain's reply to a similar question: Heaven, for the climate. Hell, for the company.

It is occasionally used to imitate the court jester, who plays the fool but knows he is smarter than the king. He talks and talks and entertains, and no one suspects that he is more than just a fool.

It is occasionally wiser to imitate the court jester, who plays the fool but knows he is smarter than the king.

Cartoons are data. If people find them funny, that tells us something about the world.

at that instant i knew there was no horror the world could offer - no war, no genocide, no famine, no childhood cancer - to which Sidney Kroll would not see the funny side

Perhaps he wanted to make Monsieur Daladier feel at home by dressing as the Michelin Man?

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting." Robert Heinlein STRANGER IN A STRANGELAND

I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.

Burn you, Nerim, that's a leg not a bloody side of beef! As my lord says, Nerim murmured. My lord's leg is not a side of beef. Thank you, my lord, for instructing me.

How would you feel, Elayne said softly, if you saw your queen trying to kill a Trolloc with a sword as you ran away? I'd feel like I needed to bloody move to another country, Birgitte snapped, loosing another arrow, one where the monarchs don't have pudding for brains.

Oh, kiss a flaming goat if I know what I mean.

My mother," she said firmly, "always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said they have about equal brains most of the time. Sometimes the mule is smarter.

Sometimes you had to laugh if only to keep from crying.

If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.