Quotes about Humor

When I was preparing for this speech I asked my family for advice. One member replied, "There's a first time for everything, so try to be funny and brief."

The Eiffel Tower is the Empire State Building after taxes.

That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw.

I feel like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail. To the man who asked how he liked it he said: 'If it wasn't for the honour of the thing, I'd rather walk.'

It gives me great strength to know that half the people I meet are below average.

I've got nothing against girls in tight sweaters - darn it!

Our sense of humor is a gift from God that should be controlled as well as cultivated. Clean, wholesome humor will relax tension and relieve difficult situations. Leaders can use it to displace tension with a sense of normal.

I cried for all of us. There was no end to the American sadness and the American madness. Someday we'll all start laughing and roll on the ground when we realize how funny it's been. Until then there is a lugubrious seriousness I love in all of this.

Tommy Lee Jones is hilarious. I would say, if you look at the body of his work, the character he is most like is the one in 'The Fugitive.' That's how he talks and jokes. That is the type of energy he has.

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

I always cry at weddings, especially my own.

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.