Humor Quotes - page 38

When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real. (Tina Fey)
Gags die, humor doesn't. View quote
Jack Benny
I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor. View quote
Louis C.K.
The man of Humor sees common life, even mean life, under the new light of sportfulness and love ; whatever has existence has a charm for him. Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
In the Spring of 1926 I made some toy animals of curtain rods, broom handles, etc., and wire. Later, a few dolls, which I animated.... in the winter of 1927–1928 I made some more toys for a friend to take home as gifts, and having shown them to De Creeft a Spanish sculptor with a very acute sense of humor, I was urged by him to make some more toys and to expose them at the ] of which animation is one of the chief characteristics. View quote
Alexander Calder
A deep sense of humor and an unusual ability for telling stories and jokes endeared Johnny even to casual acquaintances. View quote
E. P. Wigner
There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright or somber lights. In fact, only society can pass a collective opinion on the value of human life; for this the individual is incompetent. View quote
Émile Durkheim
I've never met a person who has more integrity than my husband. I respect that. There's his humor and intelligence, too, and he's really cute, all those things - but if you don't respect your partner, you'll get sick of him. View quote
Michelle Pfeiffer
Humor is the atmosphere in which grace most flourishes. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh. View quote
Marlo Thomas
As we liked to do as children, extracting from the soft forest floor the light chestnut trees only a few centimeters high at the base of which the chestnut continues to shine to the sun its clods of soil from the past, the chestnut conserving all of its presence and witnessing with its presence the power of green hands, of shadow, of airy white or pink pyramids of dances.... and of future chestnuts which, under new dust, would be discovered by the marveled sight of other children. It is in this perspective that the work of Arp, more than any other, should be situated. He found the most vital in himself in the secrets of this germinating life where the most minimal detail is of the greatest importance, where, on the other hand, the distinction between the elements becomes meaningless, adopting a peculiar under the rock humor permanently. (André Breton)
Humor is a conformity enforcer clothed in the garb of congeniality. It focuses on others' weaknesses, disasters, stupiidities, and abnormalities. View quote
Howard Bloom
Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good humor, which is no more a virtue than drunkenness. View quote
Alexander Pope
She who neer answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys. View quote
Alexander Pope
Most of the humor comes from how outrageous the situations and circumstances are. View quote
Mark Wahlberg
I think humor is used a lot of the time to keep people from getting too close. Humor side-steps and shifts the meaning. View quote
Bruce Nauman
I own any form of humor shows fear and inferiority. Irony is simply a kind of guardedness. So is a twinkle. It keeps the reader from criticism. View quote
Robert Frost
People, I guess, generally come to see me do stand-up with a working knowledge of my broad sense of humor on The Daily Show ... I don't think anyone would mistake me as an actual anchor. View quote
John Oliver (comedian)
You know, Freud accepted his lot very stoically and very well and with a sense of humor. He aged and died gracefully, and there's a lot to be said for that. View quote
Viggo Mortensen
I need a woman to have a quirky sense of humor. There's a bunch of jokes I use, and if she doesn't get them, she's probably not for me. View quote
Matthew Perry (actor)
I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves. (John Malkovich)
What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy. View quote
Joseph Pulitzer
Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act; if it weren't, more women would do it. View quote
Kate Clinton
Humor bridges the weight of serious reflection. View quote
Lorin Morgan-Richards
I fall into the category of Weird West, but I think it may be more of a "Down West” as I'd like to call it, for its sense of macabre western humor. View quote
Lorin Morgan-Richards