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Quotes About Understanding

'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to make you laugh.
~ Michael Craig-Martin
No means yes in grasshopper language.
~ Noel Fielding
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
When your about to criticize someone walk a mile in thier shoes, that way when you criticize them you're a mile away from them and you have their shoes
~ Ann Brashares
Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does.
~ David Rakoff
To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click 'I agree'.
~ Bill Maher
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
~ Max Eastman
Being patted is what it is all about.
~ Roger Caras
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
~ Alan Watts
All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
~ Will Rogers
I know the human being and fish can co-exist peacefully.
~ George W. Bush
Most men don't seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire." ~ Liberty Jones
~ Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy
Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.
~ Mark Twain
Let me put it to you this way, I am not a revengeful person.
~ George W. Bush
Humor is the foundation of reconciliation.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
~ A. E. Housman
It was nice that you guys have such a good sense of humor, because some people don't have the ability to laugh at something.
~ Owen Wilson
A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.
~ Thornton Wilder
No one is listening until you make a mistake.
~ Steven Wright
Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!" said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.
~ A.A. Milne
He knows so little and knows it so fluently.
~ Ellen Glasgow
One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
~ Larry Gelbart
Men are all the same, they think that because they came out of the belly of a woman they know all there is to know about women.
~ Jose Saramago
Not all tongues that wag cohabit with a brain.
~ Donita K. Paul, DragonFire