Famous Quotes
- When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.
- Thomas W. Higginson on Humor
- When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.
- Francois Truffaut on Humor
- When humor goes, there goes civilization.
- Erma Bombeck on Humor
- When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard.
- David Sedaris on Humor
- When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.
- Allen Klein on Humor
- When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.
- Allen Klein on Humor
- When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.
- Allen Klein on Humor
- When you meet someone new who instantly gets you, your sense of humor and your attitudes and your worldview, even if theirs are different - and you get them in return. You both talk and talk and agree and laugh and nod and yes, yes, of course you should get another round of drinks.
- Erin Morgenstern on Humor
- When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?
- Max Frisch on Humor
- Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I'm consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the 'Delete' option and restraining orders were invented.
- Richard Roeper on Humor
- Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.
- Allen Klein on Humor
- While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.
- Dweezil Zappa on Humor
- While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.
- Randy Forbes on Humor
- Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
- Ambrose Bierce on Humor
- Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.
- Frank Muir on Humor
- Wit is the lowest form of humor.
- Alexander Pope on Humor
- With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
- Patrick Wilson on Humor
- With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.
- Calvin Trillin on Humor
- With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.
- Carrie Brownstein on Humor
- With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.
- Emily Blunt on Humor
- Women's humor seems to be a little more supportive. It's just kind of trying to make the other one laugh through funny voices and kind of talking about other people. I respond to that. I feel less like I'm going to get beat up in a room full of women than I do in a room full of guys.
- Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.
- George Jean Nathan on Humor
- Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
- J. G. Ballard on Humor
- You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
- W. Somerset Maugham on Humor
- You can find heroism everyday, like guys working terrible jobs because they've got to support their families. Or as far as humor, the things I see on the job, on the street, are far funnier than anything you'll ever see on TV.
- Harvey Pekar on Humor
- You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a way out.
- Janet Evanovich on Humor
- You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
- Bill Cosby on Humor
- You can't do anything to be funny. That's cringeworthy. If your humor comes out of a place of love every time, you don't make the joke bigger than you. The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.
- John Krasinski on Humor
- You can't study comedy it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.
- Don Rickles on Humor
- You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.
- Terry Bradshaw on Humor
- You have to have a sense of humor about life to get through it.
- You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.
- Steve Irwin on Humor
- You learn timing on the road. You learn structure and how to read an audience. You learn so much about the business of laughter that you can't learn on a set, because it's all on you. Sometimes you bomb, and you know not to tell that joke again... You just hope people find the humor in the awkwardness.
- Marlon Wayans on Humor
- You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.
- Allen Klein on Humor
- You may not like the humor, but that is why every radio has an on-off button.
- Mel Karmazin on Humor
- You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.
- Daniel H. Wilson on Humor
- You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.
- Liza Minnelli on Humor
- You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.
- Lance Bass on Humor
- Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.
- Allen Klein on Humor
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