Quotes About Humor

In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping;

Lews Therin hummed even harder, making Rand wish the man had a face so he could hit him.

The Light save me from men who think with the hair on their chests. Though I don't know as there are any other kind.

The Light save me from men who think with the hair on their chests. Though I don't know as there are any other kind.

It's one of the things men are for, taking the blame, she remembered Lini saying once, and laughing while she did. They usually deserve it, even if you don't know exactly how.

Stop sucking your finger," Gawyn said with a grin. "We know you are a pretty little girl; you do not need to prove it to us.

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.

When you knew you were going to hang, the only thing to do was grin at the noose

A woman with her hair all in braids laughed at them, and another woman all in white laughed at her.

Yeah, well, if something goes wrong, it'll give me a chance to shoot your ass and save the taxpayers a lot of money, Fulton said and looked again in the mirror. The humor was gone from Kane's face, replaced by a mask of such malevolence that the detective was suddenly re minded of one of his mother's old sayings about letting sleeping dogs lie.

Please ta meetcha, kid. I'm Aahz. Oz? No Relation. No relation to what? I asked, but he was examining the room again.

I should of known he was married. I mean, nobody that young is THAT bald unless he's got a wife at home.

and personally ate sixteen pounds of brisket. The Air Force keeps track of important things like that.

mirthful note was added many hours later. In my remarks at the swearing-in, I had said that my ninety-three-year-old mother was present for the ceremony. Comedian Conan O'Brien picked up on that on his show that night. He joked that my mother had come up to me after the ceremony, offered her congratulations, and then told me, "Now, go kick the Kaiser's ass.

Humor can be marvelously therapeutic," adds another observer. "It can deflate without destroying; it can instruct while it entertains; it saves us from our pretensions; and it provides an outlet for feeling that expressed another way would be corrosive.

I make some jokes about it, but they're not funny and just add to the depression.

Ooh, we're going to think subtly. We won't get suckered into simplistic answers, not like those chicken-crossing-the-road neurochemists and chicken evolutionary biologists and chicken psychoanalysts, all living in their own limited categorical buckets.

Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure.

Eh, Mijnheer, querenzie tomar la klopje inmensa de la cabeza vefrouvens in forma de ein skoboldash sundae?

Well, he had a funny look on his face at first

Jeremy: Who did it? Wait-you think I did. Don't you? Ash: It did cross our minds at one point. Actually, it seemed to keep crossing them. Back and forth. Maybe we should put in a crosswalk.

Come on, it's an American tradition. Apple soup? Mom's homemade chicken pie?' She chuckled in spite of herself, then winced. 'It's apple pie and Mom's homemade chicken soup. But you didn't do badly, for a start.

That doesn't sound very attractive, laughed Anne. I like people to have a little nonsense about them.

The trouble with you people is that you don't laugh enough.