Quotes about Humor

All intellectual labor is inherently humorous

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

It is positively because he is quick-witted that he is long-winded.

she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that men would be so, and viewing the stronger sex in the light of animals whom it had pleased Heaven to make naturally troublesome, like bulls and turkey-cocks.

Not that Mr. Stelling was a harsh-tempered or unkind man; quite the contrary. He was jocose with Tom at table, and corrected his provincialisms and his deportment in the most playful manner; but poor Tom was only the more cowed and confused by this double novelty, for he had never been used to jokes at all like Mr. Stelling's; and for the first time in his life he had a painful sense that he was all wrong somehow.

Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.

A jest breaks no bones.

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

The only time laughter is wicked is when it is turned against Him Who gave it.

It's not so hard to be married, I've done it three or four times.

If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.

It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.