Humor Quotes - page 5

Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd. (David Lynch)
The theatre demanded of its members stamina, good digestion, the ability to adjust, and a strong sense of humor. There was no discomfort an actor didn't learn to endure. To survive, we had to be horses and we were.
Helen Hayes
She was everything I wanted. She was beautiful and charming, with a quick sense of humor, and she supported me in everything I did.
Nicholas Sparks
Some people say my humor focuses too much on stereotypes. It doesn't. It focuses on facts.
Sarah Silverman
I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves... I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.
Lily Tomlin
I fight with love, and I laugh with rage. You've gotta live light enough to see the humor, And long enough to see some change.
Ani DiFranco
As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis.
Priscilla Presley
The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortunes.
Bert Williams
Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
Victor Borge
I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.
Bel Kaufman
One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor. (Ralph Fiennes)
It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?
Dan Simmons
I would like to thank a world that never understood or accepted me, family and friends that never believed in me, and a God with one hell of a sense of humor. You have all made me what I am today. Let that weigh heavily on your consciences.
David Draiman
Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.
Oscar Wilde
A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.
Chevy Chase
Humor - it helps to make the vibe better - it loosens up the vibrations.
Brian Wilson
I distrust all dead and mechanical formulas for expressing anything connected with human affairs and human personalities. Putting human affairs in exact formulas shows in itself a lack of the sense of humor and therefore a lack of wisdom.
Lin Yutang
A pamphlet, no matter how good, is never read more than once, but a song is learned by heart and repeated over and over. And I maintain that if a person can put a few common sense facts into a song and dress them up in a cloak of humor, he will succeed in reaching a great number of workers who are too unintelligent or too indifferent to read.
Joe Hill
Have a sense of humor about life - you will need it. And be courteous.
Peter Jennings
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
E. B. White
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law? (Dick Clark)
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
T. S. Eliot
A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
Arthur Schopenhauer
It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
Edward de Bono
I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor. You don't want any woman to look under the carpet because there's lots of flaws underneath. Joanne believes my character in a film we did together, "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge" comes closest to who I really am. I personally don't think there's one character who comes close... but I learned a long time ago not to disagree on things that I don't have a solid opinion about.
Paul Newman