Quotes About Humor

caricaturists and rodeo clowns be included in that special group of gifted performers?

They all think any minute I'm going to commit suicide. What a joke. The truth of course is the exact opposite: suicide is the only thing that keeps me alive. Whenever everything else fails, all I have to do is consider suicide and in two seconds I'm as cheerful as a nitwit. But if I could not kill myself -- ah then, I would. I can do without nembutal or murder mysteries but not without suicide.

Everyone knows the moon's made of cheese.

I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.

I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.

For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.

You can sum me up in about ten words: a former student of English literature who—who—who went downhill from there! Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha!

Their humor is underdog humor, a put-down of what is more powerful than they.

He says that when asked if he feels like an old man he replies that he does not, he feels like a young man WITH SOMETHING THE MATTER WITH HIM.

like the discomforts of a camping trip that become hilarious in the telling, the verbal formulation of distress has the capacity to cure it.

I tried to give blood the other day. The blood bank refused to take it, though. Because I wouldn't tell them where I got it from.

Laughter is America's most important export.

Don't take life so serious. It ain't nohow permanent.

Don't take life so serious, son...it ain't no how permanent. --Porky Pine, June 19-24, 1950

Yowpee! I pulls my brandin' irons an' comes out a-bitin' the dust—a reg'lar Hoopalong Cassowary!

I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant.

Children are told to humor their elders who still believe in such things and have never had the scientific and technical training that would show them how incompatible such notions are with modern science.

Great. An asthmatic goon.

People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self-expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.

My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.

If flatness were funny, a dinner plate would be hilarious.

Es ist wie bei einem gedruckten Satz: Er besteht aus lauter verschieden aussehenden Buchstaben, die scheinbar willkürlich durcheinanderstehen. Aber trotzdem kann man ihn lesen! Und er ergibt einen Sinn. Man kann sogar drüber lachen, wenn er komisch ist. So funktioniert Buchhaim. Das ist Biblionismus.

Wer einmal gelernt hat, in der Melancholie zu Hause zu sein, der kann es selbst in der schlechtesten aller Welten aushalten. Gute Lektüre, schwarzen Humor und gesunde, gut abgehangene Melancholie, mehr braucht man eigentlich nicht.

Z wie Zwerch. Eine lustige Farbe, bei der man schon lachen musste, wenn man sie nur sah. Oder hörte. Man könnte traurige Dinge damit anstreichen.