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Quotes About Humor

What lady do you think prettiest? Said Sallie. Margaret. Which do you like the best? Jo, of course. What silly questions you ask! and Jo gave a disdainful shrug as the rest laughed at Laurie's matter-of-fact tone
~ Louisa May Alcott
Thank goodness, I can always find something funny to keep me up.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Salt is like good humor, and nearly everything is better for a pinch of it.
~ Louisa May Alcott
What do you want? and Rose looked up rather surprised. I'd like to borrow some money. I shouldn't think of asking you, only Mac never has a cent since he's set up his old chemical shop, where he'll blow himself to bits some day and you and Uncle will have the fun of putting him together again, and Steve tried to look as if the idea amused him.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Now, if you make fun of my plan I'll give you bad coffee for a week, and then where are you, sir? cried Mrs. Jo, tweaking him by the ear just as if he was one of the boys.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Her monstrosities in the way of cattle would have taken prizes at an agricultural fair, and the perilous pitching of her vessels would have produced seasickness in the most nautical observer, if the utter disregard to all known rules of shipbuilding and rigging had not convulsed him with laughter at the first glance.
~ Louisa May Alcott
I had a queer time with Aunt today, and, as I got the best of it, I'll tell you about it, began Jo, who dearly loved to tell stories. I was reading that everlasting Belsham, and droning away as I always do, for Aunt soon drops off, and then I take out some nice book, and read like fury till she wakes up. I actually made myself sleepy, and before she began to nod, I gave such a gape that she asked me what I meant by opening my mouth wide enough to take the whole book in at once.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Katy don't amoose me; and I must be amoosed, 'cause I 'm fwactious; mamma said I was!" sobbed Maud, evidently laboring under the delusion that fractiousness was some interesting malady.
~ Louisa May Alcott
and how they all laughed at her because she woke Amy in the night by playing the piano on her face in her sleep.
~ Louisa May Alcott
he rumpled it up in the droll way he used to do, and Jo liked it rampantly erect better than flat, because
~ Louisa May Alcott
I've had lots of troubles, so I write jolly tales.
~ Louisa May Alcott
If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing that's all that you really are. Time erodes all such beauty, but what it cannot diminish is the wonderful workings of your mind: Your humor, your kindness, and your moral courage
~ Louisa May Alcott
I've had lots of trouble, so I write jolly tales.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Now Demi, tell me where you keep your mind? ... he answered in a tone of calm conviction, In my little belly
~ Louisa May Alcott
I had had lots of troubles; so I write jolly tales.
~ Louisa May Alcottt
They both started laughing in that desperate high-pitched way people laugh when their hearts are broken.
~ Louise Erdrich
The average man is proof the average woman can take a joke," he said.
~ Louise Erdrich
He laughed a great deal and enjoyed the speculation he caused.
~ Ron Chernow
Lamont laughed at the offer. "But
~ Ron Chernow
Mr. Rossini had about twelve different kinds of sublime and about 150 kinds of ridiculous.
~ Ron David
Walker grinned. 'Ah,' said Jesus. 'There it is. Signs of your holiness.' 'I just smiled. You made a dumb joke, and I smiled.' 'And that isn't holy?
~ Ron Koertge
His mama is so stupid she thinks Meow Mix is a dance album for cats.
~ Ron Koertge
Sam had laced nearly everything in the paper with his screwball wit—proposing in one news item that a newly enacted whiskey tax made it a patriotic duty to drink.)
~ Ron Powers
There are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
~ Ronald Reagan