Quotes About Humor

Howard, everything you've done in your life is wrong according to the stated ideals of mankind. And here you are. And somehow it seems a huge joke on the whole world.

Both of them smiled derisively. But Francisco seemed to laugh at things because he saw something much greater. Jim laughed as if he wanted to let nothing remain great.

I experienced failure and learned to buck up so I could rally those who'd put their trust in me. I suffered rejections and insults often enough to stop fearing them. In other words, I grew up—and got my sense of humor back.

And if the high didn't solve whatever it was that was getting you down, it could at least help you laugh at the world's ongoing folly and see through all the hypocrisy and bullshit and cheap moralism.

if the high didn't solve whatever it was that was getting you down, it could at least help you laugh at the world's ongoing folly and see through all the hypocrisy and bullshit and cheap moralism. That

I suffered rejections and insults often enough to stop fearing them. In other words, I grew up—and got my sense of humor back.

It's what passes for wisdom, being ironic and cynical.

Why can't I just eat my waffle...

Goddamn it, Rahm, slow down—your ass is in my face!

Why can't I just eat a waffle?

When someone else offered up the theory that we had all died and entered purgatory, where we were destined to debate Hillary for all eternity, no one laughed. It felt too close to the truth.

Of course, I didn't say all that. Maybe I should have.

Why can't I just eat my waffle? - Barack Obama

No, no. I have been practicing...I bowled a 129. It's like -- it was like Special Olympics, or something.

Over time, my staff and I became so resigned to this style of "he said / he said" coverage that we could joke about it. ("In dueling press conferences today, the debate over the shape of planet Earth heated up, with President Obama—who claims the Earth is round—coming under withering attack from Republicans who insist that the White House has covered up documents proving the Earth is flat.")

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that, they just about throw up.

Yeah, Erik. You're about as sensitive as a toilet seat, Horatio said. Angie giggled. That's not original. I got it from Holden Caulfield. Who's he? Angie asked. A character in a book. [i]The Catcher In The Rye[/i]. (pg. 69)

Han rolled over, threw up a considerable quantity of water, and said, "I'm getting too old for this." Chewbacca concurred

If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business.

I was so depressed I stopped using hair spray for three weeks.

I found the right (Valentine) card to send her. On the cover there were hearts, and it said, Here's hoping you'll soon have something big and strong around the house to open those tight jar lids. Inside was a picture of a pipe wrench.

The way he talked sounded part Yankee, part foreign, like one of those friendly Irish policeman in the old movies: Ouch, mind you!

One day we came home from some errands to find a grocery sack of them hanging on our mailbox. The perpetrator, of course, was nowhere in sight. "Wow," we all said—"what a good idea!" Garrison Keillor says July is the only time of year when country people lock our cars in the church parking lot, so people won't put squash on the front seat. I used to think that was a joke.

His wife was approximately a hundred years younger than him