Famous Quotes
- Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
- Virginia Woolf on Humor
- Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
- Max Eastman on Humor
- Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
- Robert Frost on Humor
- Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless he's been in so long that it just doesn't matter, and he's not running for president. But it's just that people are so sensitive and so touchy, and you're just going to upset somebody without ever realizing it.
- Mark Russell on Humor
- Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
- Mark Twain on Humor
- Humor results when society says you can't scratch certain things in public, but they itch in public.
- Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.
- Robert Orben on Humor
- Humor that is edgy is never squeaky clean.
- Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.
- Milos Forman on Humor
- Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.
- Simon Wiesenthal on Humor
- I always felt different as a kid, and the Kinks were like, 'Yeah, we're the Kinks.' Celebrate your difference don't be afraid of your sense of humor, or your personality, or who you are. It emboldened me.
- Michael Weatherly on Humor
- I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.
- Colin Firth on Humor
- I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can't read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.
- Michael Buble on Humor
- I am a great believer that what makes our show different is the humor.
- Treat Williams on Humor
- I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.
- Shelley Berman on Humor
- I am often the brunt of my own humor.
- Charles R. Swindoll on Humor
- I appreciate humor so much, but I'm actually not a funny girl.
- Emmanuelle Chriqui on Humor
- I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.
- William Gilmore Simms on Humor
- I can't not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.
- Greg Kinnear on Humor
- I can't not put humor in a book.
- Albert Brooks on Humor
- I certainly didn't say while writing 'Gossip Girl,' 'Oh this is going to be big!' It was really like, 'Oh god, everyone's gong to hate these people! They're so bratty!' But I actually think what is so appealing about them is the humor in them.
- Cecily Von Ziegesar on Humor
- I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?
- Mayer Hawthorne on Humor
- I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
- Horatio Nelson on Humor
- I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.
- Wallace Shawn on Humor
- I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
- Vera Farmiga on Humor
- I don't have a very quick sense of humor.
- Florenz Ziegfeld on Humor
- I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable.
- Bob Newhart on Humor
- I don't know if my sense of humor goes over Americans' heads.
- Ryan Kwanten on Humor
- I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.
- Kate Walsh on Humor
- I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.
- David Steinberg on Humor
- I don't think humor is forced upon my universe it's a part of it.
- Manuel Puig on Humor
- I don't think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don't want to be a part of a show where it's mostly about coming up with the jokes.
- Sherilyn Fenn on Humor
- I don't think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd do.
- Tommy Lee Jones on Humor
- I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
- Christopher Hitchens on Humor
- I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all I was born with this, for better or for worse.
- Ivan Reitman on Humor
- I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves.
- John Malkovich on Humor
- I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldn't take their formula and bring what I had, my humor, my ideas, and make it my own.
- Dianne Wiest on Humor
- I find intelligence sexy. I find a sense of humor sexy. I find sensitivity sexy.
- Nicole Appleton on Humor
- I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.
- Danny Boyle on Humor
- I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.
- Madeleine Stowe on Humor
- I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.
- Alexander Payne on Humor
- I have a dark sense of humor.
- Olivia Munn on Humor
- I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
- Edward Albee on Humor
- I have a very dark sense of humor.
- I have a very silly sense of humor. I've never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the bottom of their shoe.
- Paula Poundstone on Humor
- I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release.
- Joaquin Phoenix on Humor
- I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.
- I just am a snob when it comes to humor.
- Courteney Cox on Humor
- I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card.
- Victoria Beckham on Humor
- I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.
- Chris Cooper on Humor
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