Humor Quotes - page 44

There are two kinds of humor. One kind that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity -- like what Garrison Keillor does. The other kind holds people up to public contempt and ridicule -- that's what I do. Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel -- it's vulgar. -quoted in People magazine interview, 1991. (Molly Ivins)
I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow. View quote
Ian MacKaye
You know, Ham," Breeze noted. "The only funny thing about your jokes is how often they lack any humor whatsoever. View quote
Brandon Sanderson
It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation. View quote
Scott Adams
All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing in the bread line - right in back of J. Edgar Hoover. View quote
Lenny Bruce
All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. View quote
Lenny Bruce
I think I have always had a little humor. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons? On the Discworld we know that There Be Dragons Everywhere. They might not all have scales and forked tongues, but they Be Here all right, grinning and jostling and trying to sell you souvenirs. View quote
Terry Pratchett
I laugh almost everyday. I have a good sense of humor, so I'm always finding something funny. View quote
Condoleezza Rice
To the most trivial actions, attach the devotion and mindfulness of a hundred monks. To matters of life and death, attach a sense of humor. View quote
Zhuangzi
Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I'm a comedian, and I definitely see the humor in a lot of things. I am also sad a lot. I cry often and easily. I think you're supposed to feel all kinds of things. View quote
Ellen DeGeneres
Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities, a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say and it's true, I do have a certain fondness for women that have dark hair. View quote
Wentworth Miller
I grew up being educated by Sesame Street and gained a sense of humor from The Muppet Show. I'd give my right foot to be able to do a scene or two with the Muppets. View quote
Neil Patrick Harris
And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
As a kid, I loved 'Godot' because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, it's much more resonant. View quote
Nathan Lane
Humor and joy contribute to my total well-being. View quote
Louise L. Hay
Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion. View quote
Edward Young
Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof. View quote
Stephen Leacock
Now as before it is the vulgar and the vital and the possibility of its transformation into the beautiful which continues to challenge and fascinate me... Or perhaps the subject of my art is like the definition of humor - emotional pain remembered in tranquillity. (Grace Hartigan)
A sense of humor has been linked with longevity. It is a possibility that the mental attitude reflected in a lively sense of humor is an important factor predisposing some people toward long life. View quote
Raymond Moody
It is the uncensored sense of humor of a people which is the ultimate therapy for man in society. View quote
Evan Esar
Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots. View quote
Steve Allen
Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder. View quote
Russell Baker