Quotes About Humor

The people chased the Conservative candidate half a mile and threw him into a pond full of duckweed. People took politics seriously in those days. They used to begin storing up rotten eggs weeks before an election.

Raras vezes falava, e em geral quando o fazia era para emitir uma observação cínica — para dizer, por exemplo, que Deus lhe dera uma cauda para espantar as moscas, e no entanto seria mais do seu agrado não ter nem a cauda nem as moscas.

for instance, he would say that god had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.

Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey

Satire is what closes on Saturday night

Is this the baby? I said. Ma turned on me again. What do you think it is? she said. A midget that can't talk?

I have lunch, flirt with some local grandmothers, undercut my flirting by crotching myself on the corner of a table as I leave. -- The Great Divider

I loved Monty Python for the wordplay--this sense that you didn't have to squash your intelligence to be funny. In fact, you could walk right into your intelligence and nerdiness and self-doubt, and that could be funny.

Though firm, we are never too firm, though we love fun, we never have fun in a silly way that makes us appear ridiculous, unless that is our intent.

I'm bleeding at the knees and choking from smoke and have no idea who these people are or where I'm going, but at least I'm off the hook in terms of the hand jobs.

And they left, neither knowing how close they had come to getting Darkenfloxxedâ"¢ out their wing-wangs.

What do my colleagues know of Dad? What do they know of me? What kind of friend gets a kick out of posting in the break room a drawing of you eating an entire computer? What kind of friend jokes that someday you'll be buried in a specially built container after succumbing to heart strain? I'm sorry but I feel that life should offer more than this.

Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to. The comic is the truth stripped of the habitual, the cushioning, the easy consolation.

Hump my hump, My stumpy lumpy hump! Hump my dump, you lumpy slumpy dump! I'll dump your hump, and then just hump your dump, You lumpy frumply clump.

And off they went, emitting a perfect major triad via fart-noises with their mouths

Some humans heer me speeking Yuman so gud they give me some Chiken, and I sit rite at there Table. And they go: How is it being a Fox? And I go: Fine. And they go: Foxes are our favrit Animal. And I go: Thanks. And they go: Why o why were we so stupid as to choose Dogs for our mane Pets? And I go: I reely don't know.

Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to. The comic is the truth stripped of the habitual, the cushioning, the easy consolation.

I had a dream and I got up to write it--normally you don't do that, normally it's the penguin orgy and you don't write that.

Anyone with a sense of humor can see that life is a joke, not a tragedy.

Asked to discuss the new spheroid endorsed by FIFA, Arena refused to take the issue seriously. "It's a BAWL," he enunciated.

When I say drop your pants and show me the moon, I'm not just whistling Dixie!

So, I'm lying on the couch and Laura walks in and I say, 'Free at last,' and she says 'You're free all right, you're free to do the dishes.' So I say, 'You're talking to the former president, baby,' and she said, 'consider this your new domestic policy agenda.

I snorted coke in college, but I didn't inhale!

I took my time to arrive, entering the world only after my grandmother Dorothy Walker Bush administered a healthy dose of castor oil to Mother. (It was my first taste of the oil business.)