Quotes About Humor

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

Amar apasionadamente sin ser correspondido es como ir en barco y marearse: tú te sientes morir pero a los demás les produces risa»

The only way to make disasters bearable is to laugh about them.

Yes, she was lovely. But more than that, she was warm and funny and loving. Hot-tempered one moment, and laughing the next. And she could make a home anywhere. She carried a sort of security about with her. I can't think of a single person who didn't love her. I still think about her every day of my life. Sometimes she seems very dead. And other times, I can't believe that she isn't somewhere in the house and that a door won't open and she'll be there.

And she [Joanna Crayshaw] had discovered that if you were safe and happy and loved, it became easy to laugh at yourself. ['A Place Like Home']

We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.

No aceptar ningún dogma sino hasta ver si es capaz de resistir un buen chiste

I don't want to be a PULSATING PIECE OF PROTOPLASM!

On the toilet no one is a star. Remember that and you will go far in life.

Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.

I saw the Fall of Troy! World War Five! I was pushing boxes at the Boston Tea Party! Now I'm gonna die in a dungeon.... [disgustedly] in Cardiff!

Wilf: God bless the cactuses! The Doctor: That's cactI. Alien: And that's racist!

Old Jiko is supercareful with her time. She does everything really really slowly, even when she's just sitting on the veranda, looking out at the dragonflies spinning lazily around the garden pond. She says that she does everything really really slowly in order to spread time out so that she'll have more of it and live longer, and then she laughs so that you know she is telling you a joke.

Could Pesto be his own observer? Interesting question. He used to like to raise his leg and study his asshole. It didn't seem like this observation caused him to split into multiple cats with multiple assholes.

Caspian burst into gales of laughter. "I suppose you were

I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away — yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of the earth's orbit ——————————— and wanted to shoot myself.

The only intelligent tactical response to life's horror is to laugh defiantly at it

I opened my eyes and saw the real world, and I began to laugh, and i haven't stopped since.

The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic.

I have just returned from a party of which I was the life and soul; wit poured from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me–but I went away– and wanted to shoot myself.

I choose one thing: always to have the laughter on my side.

One must see how laughter is feared above all other sorts of attack, how even a man who had boldly encountered mortal peril for a cause that did not concern him, would hardly hesitate to betray father and mother in case the danger were laughter.

Much is said in our age about irony and humor, especially by people who have never been capable of engaging in the practice of these arts, but who nevertheless know how to explain everything.

Jeg kommer netop nu fra et Selskab, hvor jeg var Sjælen; Vittigheder strømmede ud fra min Mund, alle loe, beundrede mig - men jeg gik, ja den Tankestreg bør være ligesaa lang som Jordbanens Radier ------------------------------- hen og ville skyde mig selv.