Humor Quotes

It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.

Lord Shaftesbury

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem abouteverything.

Steven Wright

Percy wouldn't notice a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing one of Dobby's hats.

J.K. Rowling

Nobody's ever asked me to a party before, as a friend. Is that why you dyed your eyebrow, for the party? Should I do mine too?

J.K. Rowling

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

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

Brendan Coyle

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

I love a girl with a sense of humor. Someone who can make me laugh and that I can get along with and talk with and who is just sweet overall, inside and out.

Logan Henderson

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

James Boswell

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

The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.

Arthur Hailey

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.

Benjamin Franklin

he was one of those diplomats who like and know how to work, and, despite his laziness, he occasionally spent nights at his desk.

Leo Tolstoy

It's been a rough day. I got up this morning . . . put on a shirt and a button fell off. I picked up by briefcase and the handle came off. Now I'm afraid to go to the bathroom.

Rodney Dangerfield

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

Joseph Conrad

I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.

Vera Farmiga

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.

Bill Forsyth

Bathroom humor, fart, and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It's a pretty easy audience, and that's been around for ages.

Selma Blair

I think I'm too cynical for L.A. My sense of humor doesn't go down well here, which probably affects my love life. I need to have a laugh track following me around so people know I'm trying to be funny.

Teddy Thompson

I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can't read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.

Michael Buble