Quotes About Humor

By the way, I'm Charlie." Still bent over, she laughed. The phone slipped; she pushed it back up. "I'm Carly, and that is too much. When I was in high school, I dated a guy named Harley. When I was in college, I roomed with a girl named Marley. My sister's engaged to a guy named Farley. And now you're Charlie.

At last they reached Wild River. "This is it?" Bill gawked in dismay. Jordanna joined the men to stare at the dark bed of mossy rocks. "It is wild, isn't it?" she quipped, surprising herself with her own good humor when her shoulders, her back, her legs ached.

What's the difference between a dead dog in the road and a dead lawyer in the road? There are skid marks in front of the dog.

Sarcasm is the language of the devil.

I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal disease. Never speed up to hit a pedestrian or, or course, stop to kick a pedestrian who has already been hit. From which it followed, of course, that one would never ever -- on pain of deletion from dozens of Christmas card lists across the country -- vote Republican.

Was kannst du dir denn sonst vom Leben mitnehmen als das Lachen!

Of course I'm frivolous," [Antryg] replied mildly. "You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else.

I chase him around with a bottle of water and an orange all day long.

Our nannas are losers.

Can't we be friends?' I hate your guts, Frankovitch' Can't our guts be friends?

Y are you called the cheese man?

Except for not that Jim." After a while, I started to get a little bit thirsty. That's what happens when chalk sprinkles get in your throat.

Perhaps all love had something of the ridiculous in it.

If it is true that men only want one thing, Jane asked herself, is it perhaps just to be left to themselves with their soap animals or some other harmless little trifle?

I think just a cup of tea...' There was something to be said for tea and a comfortable chat about crematoria.

I gauge the closeness of my friends even now by how helplessly they can make me laugh.

When they got to the part about swaddling clothes and the manger, Imogene asked, "You mean they tied him up and put him in a feedbox? Where was the Child Welfare?

Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight.

There is a Jewish joke concerning the man who says of an enemy: Why does he hate me so? I never did him any good.

Satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.

If he had a little more brains he would be a half-wit.

If you want a dull life, don't marry a redhead.

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

You said this was going to be funny, Jim," Waits barked. "Maybe you better just circle the jokes 'cause I don't see 'em.