Quotes About Humor

Clouds are like boogers hanging on the nostrils of the moon.

Someone has remarked that 'An ideal math talk should have one proof and one joke and they should not be the same'.

Stand-up comedy is a science. Every comedian is a psychology major, naturally.

Sir Humphrey Davy Abominated gravy. He lived in the odium Of having discovered sodium. Said to have been written as a schoolboy during a chemistry class at St. Paul's School.

APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider

There can be a science to joke writing, there are certainly rules and patterns that can be followed, but I think most of the best comedy goes beyond the rules.

PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes of humor it is popularly called a trunk.

DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.

For five hundred dollars, I'll name a subatomic particle after you. Some of my satisfied customers include Arthur C. Quark and George Meson.

The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.

I'm 40 years old, and I still love watching Bugs Bunny slap the bull on the nose. I still watch those cartoons, and yet I also enjoy reading books about science, or the current fiction.

A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater.

Humor, motivations, moral, gods, energy, secrecy

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Superfast beings shouldn't piss off the comics geek-girl.

Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of general relativity, [Eddington] allegedly replied: 'Who's the third?

I have had it with these dumb cakes on this dumb spaceship!

I've always wondered though, " Orn mused aloud, "what does God need with a starship?""Are you going to make that stupid quip every time we pass a missionary ship?""Until they learn a new position.

God exists. He has one wicked sense of humor, and right now he's having a grand old time punking the planet.

John raised an eyebrow. "So you wouldn't date someone like you?""Oh, hell, no. I'm insane, but that would be nuts.

A joke is a witticism or play on words that's meant to be funny. I say 'meant to be' because most jokes aren't funny. They range between mildly amusing and grimace-inducingly annoying.

1337% of Pi ? 42

"Sarge, mr. Nurd here is threatening to turn me to jelly.""really?" said Sarge. "what flavor?

Humor is rare in science fiction... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of other heroes with that acerbic humor when you find it.