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.
~By Emmett Kelly ~
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
~By Romain Gary ~
If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.
~By Lynda Barry ~
Puns are a form of humor with words.
~By Guillermo Cabrera Infante ~
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
A boy is naturally full of humor.
~By Robert Powell ~
There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl's sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system; it could be a lot of different things.
~By Jensen Ackles ~
Advertisers also know that humor can help bond us to their product.
~By Allen Klein ~
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.
~By Sherilyn Fenn ~
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
~By William Makepeace Thackeray ~
There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.
~By Will Durst ~
A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.
~By Chevy Chase ~
I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.
~By Jerome K. Jerome ~
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
~By Elizabeth Gaskell ~
Have a sense of humor about life - you will need it. And be courteous.
~By Peter Jennings ~
A lot of stars don't have a sense of humor.
~By Kathy Griffin ~
Look at Gleason in The Honeymooners. He was humorous but the way he lived wasn't really humorous. He was a bus driver. Who wants to be a bus driver? He didn't have any money and he was not famous. But despite that, the show is humorous.
~By George Thorogood ~
But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something.
~By Dabney Coleman ~
A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?
~By Bob Hope ~
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
~By William Temple ~
We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.
~By Bobby Clarke ~
Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.
~By John Lithgow ~
Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.
~By Ted Rall ~
Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike.
~By Trey Parker ~
I try to bring it across on my record, in my dress, in what I do and what I say because to me humor is important. You should have a dose of that and I guess giving it is what I'm here for.
~By Bootsy Collins ~
I've got a great sense of humor.
~By Anthony Hopkins ~
And it really pisses Peter and Micky off when I get onto one of those tangents where I start to do humor.
~By Davy Jones ~
Maybe there's a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people.
~By Robert Altman ~
Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.
~By Robert Morgan ~
Dali had a good sense of humor - obviously you could tell just looking at him; he was funny.
~By Joe Grant ~
At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
~By Tabitha Soren ~
If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?
~By Casey Affleck ~
Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.
~By Barbet Schroeder ~
Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.
~By Milos Forman ~
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
~By Jennifer Jones ~
Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.
~By Sergio Aragones ~
The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.
~By Michael York ~
Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.
~By Herbert Beerbohm Tree ~
A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
~By Hugh Sidey ~
I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.
~By Zac Efron ~
If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.
~By William Howard Taft ~
Charlie Chaplin's genius was in comedy. He has no sense of humor, particularly about himself.
~By Lita Grey Chaplin ~
Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
~By Malcolm Muggeridge ~
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
~By Robertson Davies ~
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.
~By Edgar Rice Burroghs ~
I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.
~By David Zucker ~
I'm not for gratuitous nudity, but if there's humor, I don't have a problem.
~By Rebecca Romijn ~
In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
~By J. Robert Oppenheimer ~
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
~By Eric Sevareid ~
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 misfortune.
~By Bert Williams ~
Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.
~By Jimmy Buffett ~
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor.
~By Avi Arad ~
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
~By Max Eastman ~
I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.
~By Chris Cooper ~
Humor is healing.
~By Brad Garrett ~
It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I'm still looking for that.
~By Michelle Williams ~
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
~By Irvin S. Cobb ~
I mean, yeah, I'm sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor, but I don't think it's all that different than the American sense of humor.
~By Simon Pegg ~
I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.
~By Lawrence Kasdan ~
Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless he's been in so long that it just doesn't matter, and he's not running for president. But it's just that people are so sensitive and so touchy, and you're just going to upset somebody without ever realizing it.
~By Mark Russell ~
It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?
~By Dan Simmons ~
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.
~By Alanis Morissette ~
Tony and I had a good on and off screen relationship, we are two very different people, but we did share a sense of humor, we now live in different parts of the world but when we find ourselves in the same place it is more or less as if there had been no years in between.
~By Roger Moore ~
This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.
~By John Callahan ~
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
~By Thomas Browne ~
I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.
~By William Gilmore Simms ~
I think in life, the sense of humor and comedy always exists.
~By Mike Epps ~
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
~By Thomas W. Higginson ~
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
~By Lionel Trilling ~
There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
~By Miguel de Cervantes ~
Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.
~By Steve Allen ~
Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.
~By Allen Klein ~
I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.
~By Kristin Hersh ~
Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
~By Grenville Kleiser ~
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns.
~By Sergio Aragones ~
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
~By Edward Albee ~
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
~By Frank Howard Clark ~
Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
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.
~By Priscilla Presley ~
When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?
~By Max Frisch ~
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
~By Agnes Repplier ~
The best scary movies have great humor in them and a great story.
~By Stephen Sommers ~
And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
~By Bobby Knight ~
I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act.
~By Gene Tierney ~
Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.
~By Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~
I liked the premise of this material. I love the marriage relationship. They kind of keep each other honest, and they enjoy each other's sense of humor. Kind of a sexy but boring relationship.
~By Patricia Arquette ~
People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.
~By Lorna Luft ~
If you look at the game and everything, it's not quite like looking at an animated film, because that's total character. This, this is really movement, but it's got funny little things if you look for the humor. They're actually getting to the character.
~By Don Bluth ~
I love the diversity of America. I love the plain, normal sense of humor Americans have. It is not wicked, like in some countries. And I also love how new America is.
~By Antonio Banderas ~
The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.
~By Arthur Hailey ~
Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutionary at the time not only because it starred a female, but also because it was so emotionally honest about all the conflicting feelings many women had in 1976.
~By Cathy Guisewite ~
I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
~By Ted Lange ~
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
~By Sidonie Gabrielle Colette ~
Humor comes from self-confidence.
~By Rita Mae Brown ~
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