Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aristotle

Wit is cultured insolence.

Aristotle

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

Eddie Vedder

Caffeine. The gateway drug.

Elinor Glyn

American humor ... is not subtle. It is something that makes you laugh the moment you hear it, you have not to think a scrap.

Dizzy Dean

The pitcher wound up and he flang the ball at the batter. The batter swang and missed. The pitcher flang the ball again and this time the batter connected. He hit a high fly right to the center fielder. The center fielder was all set to catch the ball, but at the last minute his eyes were blound by the sun and he dropped it.

David Nicholls

A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella.

John Scalzi

Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley and James Thurber, screenwriters like Ben Hecht and William Goldman, and journalists/columnists like H.L. Mencken, Mike Royko and Molly Ivins.

David Steinberg

I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.

Bruce Nauman

I think humor is used a lot of the time to keep people from getting too close. Humor side-steps and shifts the meaning.

Jeff Foxworthy

That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring.

Laura Schlessinger

If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.

Jerome K. Jerome

Cultivate," I said, "a sense of humor. From a humorous point of view this lunch is rather good.

Tyler, The Creator

I wasn't shy, but I was really hyper. Nobody got my sense of humor. I was a black skater kid.

Adam Sandler

It's important I surround myself with people who make me happy.

Angus Young

I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.

Allen Klein

Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.

Allen Klein

When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.

Allen Klein

Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.

Allen Klein

Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.

Allen Klein

When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.

Allen Klein

Advertisers also know that humor can help bond us to their product.

Allen Klein

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.

Allen Klein

Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.

Allen Klein

A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.

John Perry Barlow

I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.

James Gleick

Humorists are using Twitter to tell jokes in an interesting way. It doesn't have to be profound, and it doesn't have to be earth-shaking, but it is transformative.

Lauren Willig

My own inclination is to skew towards humor. They say that some people view life as a comedy, others as a tragedy. Me? Comedy all the way.

Jerry Seinfeld

Nobody enjoys the 'little show about nothing' humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

Jeff Ross

Humor that is edgy is never squeaky clean.

Jeff Ross

Athletes tend to have less of a sense of humor than most people. They are heroes to so many. That might be part of it.

Alison Jackson

I don't really like using ridicule as a form of humor.

Betty White

I like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.

Bob Newhart

I think there's a little confusion between humor and 'gross' passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable, because they aren't the same thing.