Famous Quotes

"People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature."

Roy Blount, Jr. on Humor

More quotes about Humor

• "A joke is a very serious thing."

  Winston Churchill on Humor

• "Humor is mankind's greatest blessing."

  Mark Twain on Humor

• "Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."

  William James on Humor

• "If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Humor

• "A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road."

  Henry Ward Beecher on Humor

More quotes by Roy Blount, Jr.

• "I heard on public radio recently, there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then they take turns, they keep matching up with other people. Two people will weed down one row and switch over with two other people. It's in Vermont. I don't think I'd be very good at Weed Dating."

• "Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ."

• "Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor."

• "Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic."