Quotes about humor
humorous writing fiction
Some of the best fiction writers got their start writing airline menus. Erma Bombeck
humor sense-of-humor
I don't have a very quick sense of humor. Florenz Ziegfeld
humor men comedian
Being a comedian is like being a con man. You have to make 'em like you before you can fool 'em. Flip Wilson
humorous holiday horror
I suppose we all have our recollections of our earlier holidays, all bristling with horror. Flann O'Brien
humorous credit tongue
I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it. Flannery O'Connor
humorous want might
I don't do what I'm told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely. Cassandra Clare
humorous reality kind
When you lead a life of scholarship you can't be bothered with the humorous realities, you know, tits, that kind of thing. Harold Pinter
humor
Follow your own weird. James Broughton
humor democracies-have sheep
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. James Bovard
humorous all-time-low world
Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world. Isaac Asimov
humorous ideas passionate
I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some entirely incorrect - all of them free ideas. Jennifer Granholm
humorous air-travel airplanes-and-flying
I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra. George S. Kaufman
humor savages curious
Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it. George Saintsbury
humorous phones wish
I wish I was a phone machine. I wish if I saw somebody on the street I didn't want to talk to I could just go, "Excuse me, I'm not here right now, If you just leave a message, I can walk away." Jerry Seinfeld
humorous sadness england
The proverbial Englishman, we know from old chronicler Froissart, takes his pleasures sadly, and the Englishwoman goes a step further and takes her pleasures in sadness itself. Jerome K. Jerome
humorous events watches
Go to humorous events at comedy clubs and watch laughable movies. Jeffrey Gitomer
humor men wigs
Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?
humorous america people
The Americans are extremely gadget minded people and American gadgets have a peculiar characteristic: they work. George Mikes
humorous japan united-states
Japan is, you often feel, an improved version of the United States.
humorous russia attention
In Moscow they do not pay much attention to the living but keep their cemeteries in a splendid state.
humorous japan resent
The Japanese are human beings like the rest of us, but they will strongly resent this insinuation.
humorous rights japan
The poor Americans are so busy defending the rights of Hindus in Pakistan, Moslems in India, Jews in Palestine, Koreans in Japan, Italians in Yugoslavia and Hungarians in Czechoslovakia that they simply cannot give a thought to Negroes in the United States.
humorous soul england
The English have no soul; they have the understatement instead.
humorous israel airports
Tel-Aviv airport is still the only airport in the world where each passenger is met by ten relatives.
humorous gay night
If it is gay, ribald and lascivious night-life you are after, Israel is not the place for you. The night clubs you do find are nearer in spirit to a YMCA than to dens of iniquity.
humorous israel tears
Israel also deprived the world of its chance of shedding tears of genuine sympathy over her destruction. The world resents this; it likes to feel noble and sympathetic.
humorous israel insane
'I don't say a Zionist must be insane,' said President Weizmann, 'but it helps if he is.'
humorous israel language
Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language.
humorous cutting russia
When a wicked and unworthy subject annoyed the Sultan of Turkey or the Czar of Russia, he had his head cut of without much ceremony; but when the same happened in England, the monarch declared : "We are not amused".
humorous suffering today
The British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today.
humorous kids names
People make a lot of fuss about my kids having such supposedly 'strange names', but the fact is that no matter what first names I might have given them, it is the last name that is going to get them in trouble. Frank Zappa
humorous best-kept-secrets russia
Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work.
humorous fighting profound
You're a transsexual fighting with a hermaphrodite over a mistress. Jerry Springer