Quotes About Humor

Life is laughter amid a rosary of death.

I am only serious about 20% of the time; one of the great joys of my life is the fact that I alone know when that is.

Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.

As I grow older, I become more and more of a Marxist -- Groucho, that is. When you have lived two-thirds of your life, you know the value of a good joke.

He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.

I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.

If somebody makes me laugh, I'm his slave for life.

My whole life, I've been telling jokes.

Think of the funniest story from your life. Chances are, it was something awful at the time.

I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.

Life deserves laughter, hence people laugh at it.

All other areas of my life, I'm hopeless. I can't even be certain how to boil an egg.

First of all, I find everything funny, which is upsetting to my children sometimes, and to people in my life, in general.

I wouldn't say that comedy brought me away from it.I think that my idea of faith was another obligation in my life.

Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

It is perhaps life's greatest accomplishment to live to old age, maintaining one's wits, one's sense of humor, one's health, and one's charm.

You can name your own salary in this business. I call mine Fred.

That is the key to navigating this life - don't take it too seriously. That's when the party begins.

Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.

I'm a comedian first. I've learned how to act. I just draw on life experiences and that's how I've learned. I didn't take classes or anything. I don't need no classroom.

Think of what would happen to us... if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.

People tend the take everything too seriously. Especially themselves. Yep. And that's probably what makes 'em scared and hurt so much of the time. Life is too serious to take that seriously.

I've waited all my life to say this... I weigh less than Elizabeth Taylor!

Laughter is the best medicine for a long and happy life. He who laughs lasts!