Humor Quotes

There's something about Southern women that is so unique yet so universal. Strong southern women are allowed to be soft and feminine and have a sense of humor. But what I love about Southern women in particular is their universality.

Connie Britton

Where ever you find humor, you find pathos close by it side.

Edwin P. Whipple

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.

Zac Efron

All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way.

Patrick Warburton

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

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

Robert Frost

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.

Sherilyn Fenn

Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.

Russell Baker

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.

Robert Benchley

The banalities of a great man pass for wit.

Alexander Chase

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

George Bernard Shaw

As far as I can tell, there are two basic (kissing) rules: 1. Don't bite anything without permission. 2. The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.

John Green

Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.

Hattie McDaniel

I can't not put humor in a book.

Albert Brooks

Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar.

Terry Pratchett

I want to be taken seriously as the type of musician that plays stuff like an electric rake. I mean, how seriously do you take someone like Spike Jones? They take him pretty seriously - a really good musician who made a great contribution in terms of humor, which is part of what I try to do too.

Eugene Chadbourne

A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.

George Eliot

Once in a restaurant I made a toast to her...The best woman a man ever had.... The waiter joined me.

Rodney Dangerfield

My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.

Bret Michaels

But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness

John Green