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Quotes About Humor

There is a little verse I remember from a child: Needles and pins, needles and pins, When a man marries his trouble begins. It doesn't say when a woman's trouble begins.
~ Margaret Atwood
How much longer can I be so fucking cute?
~ Margaret Atwood
Not that it isn't great to see you. But it's not so great for you. What'd you do wrong? Laugh at his dick?
~ Margaret Atwood
Not me," said Jimmy, trying to joke. "I don't have a price." Wrong, as usual.
~ Margaret Atwood
Besides, who would think of marrying a mothball? A question my mother put to me often, later, in other forms.
~ Margaret Atwood
Toast cannot be explained by any rational means. Toast is me. I am toast.
~ Margaret Atwood
If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans, as used to be said; though in present day, the idea of God laughing is next door to blasphemy. An ultra-serious fellow, God is now.
~ Margaret Atwood
I wish I had a pig ball.
~ Margaret Atwood
There are a great many buttocks in this room. I am no longer used to them.
~ Margaret Atwood
Some cheap do-it-yourself enlightenment handbook, Nirvana for halfwits.
~ Margaret Atwood
He lacked the energy to work the crowd, he was fresh out of innocuous drivel... Saggy boobs, ran the thought balloon in his head. Bunfaced tofubrain. Thumbsucking posterboy. Fridgewoman. Sell his granny. Wobble-bummed bovine. Bladderheaded jerk.
~ Margaret Atwood
We use butter, I said. When we can get it. Or margarine. A lot of the time it's margarine. Butter, he said, musing. That's very clever. Butter. He laughed. I could have slapped him.
~ Margaret Atwood
Every day a bad-hair day? My hair was driving me crazy, but then Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I died. Don
~ Margaret Atwood
no matter what I do there's something hilarious about it. He wanted me to play Scrabble with him, and kiss him as if I meant it.
~ Margaret Atwood
since his paycheck barely sustained him. As he wryly observed, "the last twenty-nine days of the month were the hardest.
~ Margaret Cheney
I don't know if I'm a bottom because it turns me on, or if I'm a bottom because I'm lazy.
~ Margaret Cho
Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think. It is vital to mourn for the victims of this government, but not at the expense of losing our sense of humor. Our ability to laugh coincides directly with our ability to fight. If we can make fun of it, we can transcend it.
~ Margaret Cho
There are only two perfectly useless things in the world," he quipped. "One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré!
~ Margaret MacMillan
Oh, and last week? I changed into a tiger and scared Tommy Bertram so bad he wet his pants. Wait'll he sees my dragon.
~ Margaret Maron
You know I don't read novels,' she said and, trying to equal his jesting mood, went on: 'Besides, you one said it was the height of bad form for husbands and wives to love each other.' 'I once said too God damn many things,' he retorted abruptly and rose to his feet.
~ Margaret Mitchell
You know I don't read novels,' she said and, trying to equal his jesting mood, went on: 'Besides, you once said it was the height of bad form for husbands and wives to love each other.' 'I once said too God damn many things,' he retorted abruptly and rose to his feet.
~ Margaret Mitchell
But Gerald has known poverty, and he could never learn to lose money with good humor or good grace.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Really, Scarlett, I can't go all my life, waiting to catch you between husbands.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.
~ Fred Astaire