99 Humor Quotes

1.  Every time I do a movie like 'Finding Neverland' or 'Chocolat' or 'Shakespeare' in Love,' we deal with the creative process, but there's humor and fun along the way. I always love that kind of movie. Harvey Weinstein
2. The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies. William Temple
3. The comic is the perception of the opposite humor is the feeling of it. Umberto Eco
4. 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. Cathy Guisewite
5. Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory. Joshua Foer
6. I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldn't take their formula and bring what I had, my humor, my ideas, and make it my own. Dianne Wiest
7. Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family. Madonna Ciccone
8. Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor it is the sign that he wants all the truth. Mark Van Doren
9. Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. Lord Chesterfield
10. 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. Kate Clinton
11. Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. Horace Walpole
12. I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves. John Malkovich
13. A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way. Allen Klein
14. The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth. James Thurber
15. 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
16. I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic's best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he's doing is easy is an occupational hazard. Richard Russo
17. 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. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
18. Women's humor seems to be a little more supportive. It's just kind of trying to make the other one laugh through funny voices and kind of talking about other people. I respond to that. I feel less like I'm going to get beat up in a room full of women than I do in a room full of guys. Paul Feig
19. 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. William Glasser
20. Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots. Steve Allen
21. 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. Michelle Williams
22. But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it. Seth Grahame-Smith
23. There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them. Robert Benchley
24. We are really living the American dream, to be a successful brand in the States and in Europe and to steep ourselves in our heritage. But we do it with a sense of humor. We don't take ourselves too seriously in fashion. Tommy Hilfiger
25. If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor. Jennifer Jones
26. I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture. Sloane Crosley
27. I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release. Joaquin Phoenix
28. We do not take humor seriously enough. Konrad Lorenz
29. Bad humor is an evasion of reality good humor is an acceptance of it. Malcolm Muggeridge
30. Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read. Justin Halpern
31. 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. Don Bluth
32. I've always been really dark, and drawn to darker humor. Nothing has been forced, and I don't say anything for shock value. Amy Schumer
33. If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well. Alan Thicke
34. One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you. Larry Gelbart
35. Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs. John Ratzenberger
36. The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. Alfred North Whitehead
37. If golf wasn't enjoyable and there wasn't a lot of humor and enjoyment, even though the game is so frustrating, you would wonder why you put yourself through it. Ray Romano
38. The president of General Motors was in a foul humor. Arthur Hailey
39. 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. Bootsy Collins
40. But because it was able to balance that kind of humor with a sweet story and characters you really rooted for and also got across the girls' point of view, I've heard nothing but great things from younger and older females as well. Jason Biggs
41. As I get older, my sense of humor is my biggest asset. David Alan Grier
42. I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor. Michael J. Fox
43. Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor. Tab Hunter
44. This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section. John Callahan
45. The love of truth lies at the root of much humor. Robertson Davies
46. In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action. Jeremy Renner
47. Even celebrities, most people have a sense of humor. Most of the people we meet who we've done on the show, like it. Matt Stone
48. No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
49. For the most part, comedians are pretty friendly with each other. They always say they badmouth each other, but most of the time, they're friends. We're the only ones that can really stand our type of humor. Colin Quinn
50. Advertisers also know that humor can help bond us to their product. Allen Klein
51. It's funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They're usually quite nice comparisons I will accept those gladly. But I am always sort of appalled at the idea of being lumped with other, more chick-y female writers. And the truth is probably that neither comparison is accurate. Sloane Crosley
52. People who know me know I have a sense of humor that can really push the envelope. Carmen Electra
53. There is nothing like the way people feel after they've seen 'The Intouchables.' They feel amazing. The word of mouth on this film is incredible. It's intelligent-feeling good. You're not insulted by the low-browness or stupidity of some of the humor. It's so smart and terrific. Harvey Weinstein
54. I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I've got a dry sense of humor. Katie Price
55. I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic. Shelley Berman
56. I think humor is important for all of us, and a great comedian is a great treasure. Leila Josefowicz
57. If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor. Kate Beckinsale
58. Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor. John Lithgow
59. I like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor. Betty White
60. Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release. Ray Stevenson
61. The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion. Franklin D. Roosevelt
62. I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage. Connie Britton
63. Being a Hot Mom means being respected as a mom and a woman. And, the key to being a Hot Mom is having a sense of humor about yourself and all the crazy situations that arise. Jami Gertz
64. There's always a source for humor. Calvin Trillin
65. I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine. Rainn Wilson
66. Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever. Mark Twain
67. I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others. Dean Koontz
68. Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear. Thomas W. Higginson
69. Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing. Allen Klein
70. With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor. Patrick Wilson
71. Humor is reason gone mad. Groucho Marx
72. Our humor turns our anger into a fine art. Mary Kay Blakely
73. Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder. Russell Baker
74. I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage. Kyle Chandler
75. I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it. David Steinberg
76. Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile. J. B. Priestley
77. If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony. Xun Zi
78. Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop. Allen Klein
79. I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home. Cathy Guisewite
80. The script was just the best I'd read in a long time and I love the humor, which I wasn't expecting, and I like the fact that my six year old daughter can see the show without being, you know, protected from it. Stephen Collins
81. The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter. Alice Meynell
82. Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger. Allen Klein
83. Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. Jonathan Swift
84. Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements. J. G. Ballard
85. Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law? Dick Clark
86. Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does. Bill Nye
87. However, frat-boy humor is funny and it always will be. Craig Kilborn
88. It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you. Margaret Cho
89. I love doing comedy. You don't get many good comedy scripts. They're rare. But, I do love playing comedy. Even in drama, I like to try to find the humor because I think it's very human. Colm Meaney
90. People who know me , they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy. Gary Oldman
91. Have a sense of humor about life - you will need it. And be courteous. Peter Jennings
92. Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time. Hattie McDaniel
93. 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. Ted Rall
94. You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance. W. Somerset Maugham
95. I think films about men are often about characters who don't want to express their feelings. You're supposed to kind of admire them for not expressing their feelings. And I feel that's a bit dull. Women's stories often have stronger emotional content, which I enjoy doing. What I really love doing is mixing that with humor. Nigel Cole
96. The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense. Jacob August Riis
97. Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony. Lionel Trilling
98. Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military. Garry Trudeau
99. Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time. Lynda Barry