Quotes About Humor

Interviewer: What is your greatest regret? Gorey: That I don't have one

To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.

I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles.

"Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shillingYour ring?" Said the Piggy, "I will."

"I would be your wife most gladly!"(Here she twirled her fingers madly),"But in England I've a mate!"

How pleasant to know Mr. Lear!Who has written such volumes of stuff!Some think him ill-tempered and queer,But a few think him pleasant enough.

There was an Old Man with a beard,Who said: "It is just as I feared!Two owls and a hen,Four larks and a wrenHave all built their nests in my beard."

How pleasant to know Mr Lear!" / Who has written such volumes of stuff! / Some think him ill-tempered and queer / But a few think him pleasant enough.

There was a Young Person of Smyrna, whose grandmother threatened to burn her; But she seized on the cat, and said, "Granny, burn that! You incongruous old woman of Smyrna!

Fish fiddle de-dee!

nonsense pictures There was a Young Lady of Troy, Whom several large flies did annoy; Some she killed

Humor is a key to a happy life with ADD.

Laughter is the stubborn reward of grim times.

The plate is happy but the toast hasn't slept well and is seeking revenge.

I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dalí, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said, 'I will be so brief I am already finished' and sat down.

Scientists by nature tend to be cautious in anything they say about religion, even when expressing skepticism. The distinguished physiologist Anton (Ajax) J. Carlson, when asked what he thought of the 1950 ex cathedra (that is, infallible) pronouncement by Pius XII that the Virgin Mary ascended bodily into heaven, is reported to have responded that he couldn't be sure because he wasn't there, but of one thing he was certain, that she passed out at thirty thousand feet.

Urbino laughed. The Contessa, as usual when it came to things Venetian, was probably right.

He was just one of those Englishmen who was always saying silly things to sound less pompous, and pompous things to sound less silly.

He's so slow that he takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes.

Man is the only animal with the powers of laughter, a privilege which was not bestowed on him for nothing. Let us then laugh while we may, no matter how broad the laugh may be, and despite of what the poet says about ?the loud laugh that speaks the vacant mind.? The mind should occasionally be vacant, as the land should sometimes lie fallow, and for precisely the same reason.

One cannot stop such ones, who habitually split the hair; however, above that, some other adventurers even strike to create the hole in the hair. Just smile at that than showing seriousness.

The sense of humour creates livingness within you and makes the ways, to avoid hostile, arrogant, and irritating behaviours. If you cannot humour then just enjoy the humour demonstrated by others, if you don't, it means your heart and mind is dead

Sorry, but looks like I'm dead. *Grin*

Allen Ginsberg asked me to sign his book. I must've stood there for five minutes drawing a complete blank. Hi Allen, from one howl to another. Dear Allen I'm glad you think I'm a poet. Love, Eileen. I'm the only woman you like, right Allen? Only the craziest thoughts passed through my mind. Finally he started getting embarrassed. Just sign it. Come by and write something better when you think of it. I scrawled something. I forget what it was.