Humor Quotes

It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.

People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it's a sense of humor. If you've got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive.

Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know.

You may not like the humor, but that is why every radio has an on-off button.

I don't think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd do.

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

You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.

Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.

Solutions-oriented campaigning with a little passion and a little humor; I think that will go a long way. I think people are desperate for it.

Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read.

The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.

Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the client's quality world.

I've learned to have a sense of humor about myself. Lord knows everyone else does!

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Humor is healing.

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.

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.

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.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a way out.

We don't appreciate the value of humor sometimes.

Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

G.I. humor is similar to cop humor.

This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.

You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.