Quotes About Humor

Gerald Ford was unknown throughout America. Now he's unknown throughout the world.

Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.

Success is always less funny than failure.

Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids) is a gimmick comedian who has devoted her short career to being obese and obnoxious with equal success.

Overall Bush's European trip has been an overwhelming success. Not once has he gotten separated from his group.

lawyers always give you very bad dinners.

Bonaparte chantait presque aussi faux que Louis XV

Now, I'm ridiculously attached to my head, seeing that it seems to go rather well with my shoulders.

La vie est un chapelet de petites misères que le philosophe égrène en riant.

He was afflicted with an education and a sense of humor. He was inspired by a purpose. He was armed with a phone book. He was doomed.

I share this house with two and a half men and a mountain gorilla. We have everything in stock.

I understand that the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, astatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equaled the purity of sound achieved by the pig.

In North By Northwest during the scene on Mount Rushmore, I wanted Cary Grant to hide in Lincoln's nostril and then have a fit of sneezing. The Parks Commission...was rather upset at this thought. I argued until one of their number asked me how I would like it if they had Lincoln play the scene in Cary Grant's nose. I saw their point at once.

You think she's pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!

In the dining room, my brother—the scholar—was asking my father what it meant, amadan. My father said, "A fool. It means someone's a fool." Even with the water running, the cup of soapy water at my lips, I could hear my father's shout of laughter when my brother asked him, "Who is?

It would be a different Church if I were running it." And so lifted the burden of that terrible morning with some laughter.

What she felt was a lighthearted sort of compassion, almost like laughter. A swish of tender hilarity, getting the better of all her sores and hollows, for the time given.

When I told him on the phone that after all you and I would not be getting married, he said Oh-oh. Do you think you'll ever manage to get another one? If I'd objected to his saying that he would naturally have said it was a joke. And it was a joke. I have not managed to get another one but perhaps have not been in the best condition to try.

T}here is a point at which even grief feels absurd. And at this point, laughter gushes up to retrieve sanity.

I don't know who tried to teach him what to do in the bedroom, but it must have been a furniture salesman.

How do we make new and restorative of soul the old pain? How do we learn to carry with grace and humor all that has happened to us?

She looks like a wet cat.

He was in the jovial mood, as he sometimes phrased it, of the literarily inclined escaped convict.

I already had my bad luck,' she say. 'I had enough to keep me laughing the rest of my life.