Quotes About Humor

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else.

With my talent, I can make people laugh and give them another attitude about life. What a blessing that is for me.

Don't let a suitcase filled with cheese be your big fork and spoon.

I think I've learned that if you want to be successful, you have to tell your story honestly and from your heart - and I think a healthy sense of humor doesn't hurt either.

I nearly clutched my bosom and gasped like Melanie from Twelve Oaks. But of course I didn't. ~ Dorothea Benton Frank, The Hurricane Sisters

at my age, if I were sexually harassed, I'd send the guy flowers

The first indication of menopause is a broken thermostat. It's either that or your weight. In any case, if you don't do something, you could be dead by August. God, middle age is an unending insult.

the Devil danced all over the place in his beautiful eyes. You never knew what kind of surprise he had for you, just to make you laugh.

Miss Trudie said, "Well, like my momma used to say, butter my butt and call me a biscuit. This takes the cake.

Of course I don't always enjoy being a mother. At those times my husband and I hole up somewhere in the wine country, eat, drink, make mad love and pretend we were born sterile and raise poodles.

It's so Quite around here, I'm sure I heard a Bird Fart!

Mrs. Pollifax wondered why, when she was being her most serious, people found her so amusing.

Death in particular seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of innocent amusement than any other single subject.

We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.

There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.

Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.

Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.

If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it.

I like to have a martini, Two at the very most. After three I'm under the table, after four I'm under my host.

How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.

Don't look at me in that tone of voice.

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

Coolidge is dead" "How could they tell?