Quotes About Humor

This picture of a hot early stage of the universe was first put forward by the scientist George Gamow in a famous paper written in 1948 with a student of his, Ralph Alpher. Gamow had quite a sense of humor—he persuaded the nuclear scientist Hans Bethe to add his name to the paper to make the list of authors "Alpher, Bethe, Gamow

Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end.

There was a young lady of Wight Who travelled much faster than light She departed one day In a relative way And arrived on the previous night.

to some accounts, a journalist told Eddington in the early 1920s that he had heard there were only three people in the world who understood general relativity. Eddington paused, then replied, "I am trying to think who the third person is.")

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

They were eyes made for laughter, but not raucous yuks; rather, for the laughter of wit, of erudition, of the bon mot.

I'm far too intelligent to be brave, thank you very much.

There should be a way to surgically remove and store children's tongues as soon as they learn to speak," said Hugh. "Then, when they've graduated from college and distinguished themselves in the workplace, they could file a petition to have their tongues reattached." "I don't think that's feasible

Duke est desipere in loco [it is pleasant to act foolishly from time to time—a line from Horace].

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Do you drink? Of course,I just said I was a writer.

never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.

Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor

Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn't a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.

If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were.

Oh shit, the mummy's after us, let's all walk a little faster

When you want to feel better, call something a piece of shit. It usually works.

A dimwit thinks nothing is funny unless it's mean.

God turned out to be a bunch of bad little kids playing interstellar Xbox. Isn't that funny?

Teddy, Vern, Chris: I don't shut up. I grow up. And when I look at you, I throw up. Aghhh! Gordie: And then your mom goes around the corner and she licks it up.

Laughter, Susannah would later reflect, is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because the jokes are funny but because your own condition is funny.

When I die, I guess I'll go with a library card in one hand and an OVERDUE stamp in the other. Well, maybe there's worse ways.

I used to work for this guy before I came here...He used to tell me that 'never' is the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.

God wiped snot out of his nose and that was you.