Quotes About Humor

Je m'ennuie – Je voudrais être crevé, être ivre, ou être Dieu pour faire des farces. Et merde.

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

He was a fat little man with short arms, short legs, a short neck, short nose, short everything in fact.

Monsieur Lerebour was short, round and jovial, with the joviality of a shopkeeper who liked to do himself well. His wife, who was thin, self-willed and perpetually discontented, had still not succeeded in overcoming her husband's good humour.

Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.

See humor where others see insults. Life is easier if you do not take offense easily.

As I remember his laugh, there was nothing mad about it, it was more like the laugh of someone who has been the victim of a practical joke, a farce in which he had believed until suddenly he realized his folly.

One look at Scott was enough to tell you that the twig between his legs hadn't had its bark peeled back in a coon's age.

A wealthy man is one who earns $100 a year more than his wife's sister's husband.

Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence she finds it almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening without snickering.

Creator: A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.

One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

In the main, it counsels yielding to celibacy, which is exactly as sensible as advising a dog to forget its fleas.

What is the origin of the prejudice against humor? Why is it so dangerous, if you would keep the public confidence, to make the public laugh? Is it because humor and sound sense are essentially antagonistic?

My favourite outdoor activity is going back inside.

Teain had no difficulty generating the indignation of a satirist. He lack the patience of a reformer.

Now pastor Jón Prímus laughed. Philosophy and theology have no effect on him, much less plain common sense. Impossible to convince this man by arguments. But humour he always listens to, even though it be ill humour.

Someone to whom jokes are never told soon contracts enthusiasm deficiency.

My father had the right idea. Begin from an assumption of insanity and then laugh, where possible.

However, Harry, my clock has stopped. The embalmer is rolling up his sleeves. Even as we speak, seventy-two virgins are slipping into schoolgirl uniforms for me. You must live, and I confirm: always put your penis first.

My father] murmured only, 'you can always tell when a woman is ready for sex. Oh yes. Her ears get hot.' I looked keenly at Helen's ears. I even reached out and pinched one of them lightly, for scientific confirmation. Warmish!

I'm more than ever of the opinion that a decent human existence is possible today only on the fringes of society, where one then runs the risk of starving or being stoned to death. In these circumstances, a sense of humor is a great help.

The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.