Quotes About Humor

One of the things that kills Buddhist spiritual life is excessive seriousness.

The maimings of love are endlessly funny....

It's impossible not to laugh when codes are jammed up.

Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite

Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.) And yet: Don't land me in one of those relationships where we're always pecking at each other, disguising insults as jokes, rolling our eyes and playfully scrapping in front of our friends, hoping to lure them to our side of an argument they could not care less about.

The good stuff in me I got from my mom. I can joke, I can laugh, I can tease, I can celebrate and support and praise – I can operate in sunlight, basically – but I can't deal with angry or tearful women.

We named the bar The Bar. People will think we're ironic instead of creatively bankrupt, my sister reasoned. Yes, we thought we were being clever New Yorkers - that the name was a joke no one else would really get, like we did. Not meta-get ... But our first customer, a gray-haired woman in bifocals and a pink jogging suit, said, I like the name. Like in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Audrey Hepburn's cat was named Cat.

I appreciate a straightforward apology the way a tone-deaf person enjoys a fine piece of music.

He wears his cockiness like an ironic T-shirt, but it fits him better.

inside joke is like a symbol of friendship without having to do the work required of an actual friendship. So

An inside joke is like a symbol of friendship without having to do the work required of an actual friendship.

We called them Tonys, because my dad was named Tony and he could never say no to anyone (although I assume he said no to my mom at least once, when she asked him to stay).

Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite.

Go and I had a game inspired by our mom, who had a habit of telling such outrageously mundane, endless stories that Go was positive she had to be secretly fucking with us. For about ten years now, whenever Go and I hit a conversation lull, one of us would break in with a story about appliance repair or coupon fulfillment.

It is a line that is only a little funny, but it already has the feel of an inside joke, one that will get funnier with nostalgic repetition

If I had a dick, I would fuck this peanut butter

She had an unnecessarily loud voice, a bit of a bray, like some enchanted, hot donkey.

Amy knew that was what I had loved most about us back when I loved us: not the big moments, not the Romantic with capital-R moments, but our secret inside jokes.

I'd always liked our inside jokes the best—they made me feel more connected to Amy than any amount of confessional truth-telling or passionate lovemaking or talk-till-sunrising.

Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite. Dorothy

It is dangerous to laugh at your spouse.

Three morbidly obese hill people on motorized scooters are between me and my morning coffee.

Betsy's arm shot out, and my cheek suddenly stung. "What the hell?" I said, trying to figure out what had happened. A cherry-red jellybean was in my lap. I held it up. "Every time you tense up, every time you turn that handsome face into an undertaker's mask, I am going to hit you with a jellybean," Betsy explained, as if the whole thing were quite reasonable.

The little brown house was my father's house, which was actually blue, but Amy was making another inside joke. I'd always liked our inside jokes the best – they made me feel more connected to Amy than any amount of confessional truth-telling or passionate lovemaking or talk-till-sunrising.