Quotes About Humor

The twinkling of an eye. That is the most wonderful expression. I've thought from time to time it was the best thing in life, that little incandescence you see in people when the charm of a thing strikes them, or the humor of it. 'The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart.' That's a fact.

The twinkling of an eye...that little incandescence you see in people when the charm of a thing strikes them, or the humor of it. 'The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart.' That's a fact.

Lila had no particular notion of what the word 'married' meant, except that there was an endless, pleasant joke between them that excluded everybody else and that all the rest of them were welcome to admire.

One of Lindon's amusing word-unit palindromes reads: Girl, bathing on Bikini, eyeing boy, finds boy eyeing bikini on bathing girl. Other palindromes are symmetric with respect to back-to-front reading letter by letter-Able was I ere I saw Elba (attributed jokingly to Napoleon), or the title of a famous NOVA program: A Man, a Plan, a Canal, Panama.

Life is a comical business, and there is nothing funnier than love traveling through time.

Death is another story. I will never make a joke about death. It is beyond my powers.

All Sicilians are good eaters, when there is food to be had, and one of the few jokes people dared to make about Don Croce was that he would rather eat well than kill an enemy.

You don't know women, Pippi said. if they like you, you can piss in the sink. If they don't like you, you can make them the Queen of England and they'll shit on you.

Son chispazos de humor que se agradecen, que revelan que en el interior de ese ser «podrido de literatura» había picardía, malicia, vida.

Usted ha de acostumbrarse a la vida y ha de aprender a reír. (Prólogo de El lobo estepario).

They should really tack that on to the marriage ceremony: 'Do you promise to love, honor, obey me, and also to kill me when I can no longer stand in a shower?

Fuck you, she said, giggling. And your little dog too.

But now that you mention it, will you promise to off me when I'm ninety and never leave home without an oxygen tank? Make a day of it. Just roll me and my wheelchair off the George Washington Bridge and call it a life. Deal? The request seemed to make her smile. Deal. They should really tack that on to the marriage ceremony. 'Do you promise to love, honor, obey me, and also to kill me when I can no longer stand in a shower?'?

It's not disgusting, that little skin that hangs? The foreskin? No, it's okay. I think that generally speaking , a dick isn't really photogenic. I quite agree.

Non si ha il diritto di autocompatirsi finché i propri problemi sono ancora accettabili... E quando invece non lo sono più, il solo modo di sopportare l'insopportabile è di riderci sopra.

Would you like to become my wife? Imbecile! What a question. It's my greatest dream!!!

Men's pride is situated in their scrotums.

I asked him what his work was. He answered that he devoted all his time to his political activities... He was undoubtedly busy with the diplomatic relations between his testicles and women's breast.

That day I learned something essential: We can only fell sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable...once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.

On ne peut s'apitoyer sur soi que quand nos malheurs sont encore soutenables...une fois cette limite franchie, le seul moyen de supporter l'insupportable, c'est d'en rire.

I'm going to die and my son farts in my face... what a waste!

Laughter—just good bone-shaking, belly-jiggling, light-in-the-head laughter, is a sure sign of health. The only one who hates it is Satan and all his wannabes.

And it is funny because economists are not real scientists, and because logicians think more clearly, but mathematicians are best.

Life is a cowpat sandwich Jimbo.' he sighed 'with a very thin bread and lots of filling.