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Quotes About Humor

Love, you mock us for your sport.
~ Sophocles
What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
~ Soren Kierkegaard
One must see how no attack is so feared as that of laughter... because more than any other this attack isolates the one attacked.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
To make my brothers and my sister laugh was the greatest joy to me in my life. I like people who can make fun of themselves a lot.
~ Gemma Ward
Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest.
~ George Eliot
I think life is a jape. Yours, mine, everyone's
~ George R. R. Martin
In real life I'm a tall, blond Christian.
~ Gilbert Gottfried
My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Part of being a comedian is that it's your job to look at life and regurgitate it in a funny way, to point out its absurdities.
~ Greg Behrendt
You can perceive life as tragic, or you can laugh at the tragedy of it and that turns it into comedy. It doesn't change the circumstances.
~ Harold Ramis
When something makes no sense, sometimes you make something of it. A joke. A spiritual practice. A life.
~ Heather Sellers
Nothing is so fatiguing as the life of a wit.
~ Hester Lynch Piozzi
Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.
~ Horace Walpole
I think [director] Malcolm Lee is a real master at being able to make you laugh while bringing serious subject-matter, so the movie doesn't hinge on silliness, but on real life.
~ Ice Cube
It's important to me that I don't take myself too seriously and I have fun with every experience in life. That is the whole point.
~ Idara Victor
I enjoy life. I always enjoy jokes.
~ Ivan Lendl
He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.
~ J. D. Salinger
We risk life and limb and my princely good looks for a spoonful of sweet sock?
~ J.V. Hart
Life under the Soviet system was often funny, absurd really, especially for children.
~ Jaak Kilmi
When somebody is doing something really funny, in real life and as a performer, my instinct is to join them.
~ Jake M. Johnson
Can you giggle while racing for your life and protecting a six-year-old? I can.
~ James Patterson
Cultivate your sense of humour. On life's journey from nappy rash to denture adhesive, humour is a great pain reliever.
~ James Simpson
You may be old, you may be in your third act, but you can still be vital and sexual and funny. Life isn't over.
~ Jane Fonda
A sense of humor saves your life, and being able to make friends wherever you go.
~ Jason O'Mara