Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carolyn Wells

musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.

Agnes Repplier

Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity ...

Agnes Repplier

Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.

Agnes Repplier

Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.

Gina Barreca

The search for truth can be compared to a cat chasing her tail: frantic in her pursuit, her quarry nevetheless eludes her; despite the fact that all the world can see it's right there, it remains just beyond her reach. It cannot be possessed because, paradoxically, it is already part of her.

Cathy Guisewite

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.

Casey Stengel

Okay everybody, line up in alphabetical order according to your height.

Carl Hiaasen

Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

Carl Jung

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

James Gray

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.

Tracy Morgan

I want to show the world my humor.

Oscar Wilde

Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman - or the want of it in the man

Oscar Wilde

Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.

Judy Gold

I love the vulgar. I kind of have the humor of a 17-year-old boy.

Donald Rumsfeld

Keep your sense of humor. As General Joe Stillwell said, 'The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his behind'.

Joss Whedon

I never write anything without humor, just because I like humor, but at the same time, it is a way for anything fantastical to become relatable.

Jennifer Jones

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.

Jack Benny

I gambled at the crap table all night and finally lost $8, but during that time the house gave me four drinks and two cigars, so it was still a lot cheaper than renting a room.

How could you not? I do have a sense of humor.

I'll just find humor in it and let people be people.

His humour is very much like his movies, one-liners, fast, off-the-cuff stuff. He's always been like that.

Michael Rose

He writes music that spins itself out indefatigably. There's a wonderful strain of humor there. It's quirky, often bizarre, there's an irreducible strangeness to his style. It's unlike any music I've ever heard.

John Callahan

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

Martin Luther

Sin cannot tear you away from him [Christ] even though you commit adultery a hundred times a day and commit as many murders.

Mose Allison

There's a few tunes of mine that don't have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere.

Seth Godin

Your generosity is more important than your perfection.

Theodore Hesburgh

I'll have another beer. I'm not driving.

Thelonious Monk

The only cats worth anything are the cats that take chances.

Terry Pratchett

Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.

Terry Pratchett

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

Terry Pratchett

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.

Margaret Halsey

Humorists are not humorous twenty-four hours a day. In fact, when you get to know them well, they are often not humorous at all. They tend to be hypersensitive, taut, neurotic creatures driven by God know what obscure compulsion to earn their living the hard way.

Michael Badnarik

Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.