Quotes About Humor

STREPSIADES. So the rear of a gnat is a trumpet. Oh! what a splendid discovery! Thrice happy Socrates! 'Twould not be difficult to succeed in a law-suit, knowing so much about the gut of a gnat!

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.

Wit is educated insolence.

The secret to humor is surprise.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty.

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

They are fond of fun and therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence.

the laughable is a species of what is disgraceful.

We laugh at inferior or ugly individuals, because we feel a joy at feeling superior to them.

For the laughable is a sort of error and ugliness that is not painful and destructive, just as, evidently, a laughable mask is something ugly and distorted without pain.

Brian's face turned pouty. "So you were just blowing smoke up my ass." Anna smiled dimly. "You may have been inhaling, dear, but I wasn't blowing.

Her Mao tse-tung t-shirt was stretched so tightly across her chest that the Chairman was grinning broadly

When Connie rounded the corner several seconds later, she found her friend standing glumly by herself, squeezing a roll of Charmin.

That's all I know, except that he's probably straight." The landlady gave him a sly smile. "That's what he told you? He's probably straight?" He laughed. "Well, he's currently in love with Bruce Springsteen, so I just assumed he was." "Now wait a minute.

Dying is easy; parking is impossible.

Humor was the enemy of desire.

My dear Rikki," Karellen retorted, "it's only by not taking the human race seriously that I retain what fragments of my once considerable mental powers I still possess!" Despite himself, Stormgren smiled.

Poole and Bowman had often humorously referred to themselves as caretakers or janitors aboard a ship that could really run itself. They would have been astonished, and more than a little indignant, to discover how much truth that jest contained.

In a rare flash of humor, she had replied: "Woody, a commander can be wrong, but never uncertain.

They were not in the least deterred when a celebrated Washington humorist claimed that his calculations proved that the world ended on December 31, 1999—but that everyone had had too much of a hangover to notice.

Hal remained a low-grade moron.

it's only by not taking the human race seriously that I retain what fragments of my once considerable mental powers I still possess!

Or is the meaning of life no longer 42?