Quotes About Incongruity

I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split.

The subject was as easy to spot as a kangaroo in a dinner jacket

I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.

She seemed to be wearing frozen fish bladders for shoes. But

My brain won't stretch to this right now. It doesn't fit!

As funny as watching a man in a wig trying to hold down a job on a helipad

What kind of man gives cigarettes to trees?

The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.

Reverence is a good thing, and part of its value is that the more we revere a man, the more sharply are we struck by anything in him (and there is always much) that is incongruous with his greatness.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

Yet you would not drive a car with your mouth unless you are my mother-in-law.

The Hills are alive with the sound of CRAP!

The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.

Grace is rhwe absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incogruity.

They made Lennie feel like an actor who has wandered into the wrong play.

I felt like a kid at Santa Claus's funeral.

I laugh at weird times - at good and bad things alike. I laugh simply when things are incongruous. It's not necessarily a judgment - as it is noticing the oddity of something.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

Fun-run" indeed,what a misnomer. That'd be like saying "calm gremlin" or "pleasant hag." Or 'entertaining history textbook.

The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.

Why do they call it the Department of Interior when they are in charge of everything outdoors?

Humor does depend on surprise, and the things that people remember as the funniest things in the world, you look at later and you go, "What? What was that all about?"

And an airplane of spittle dived into the sea, there were no salivas.

Comedy is the kindly contemplation of the incongruous.