Quotes about Humor

The solution is always spiritual, and it almost never has anything to do with the problem ... laughter is carbonated holiness.

A funny little literary article in the hand is worth at least three Critiques of Pure Reason in the bush.

We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.

The people I grew up around who I really liked were quick on the draw. It always just wowed me. And my mum would make weird funny comments. I can see in myself her self-deprecating, hippie humour. I can't take myself too seriously.

And this filmmaker has the most extraordinary epiphany! He realizes that there is as much merit in trying to ease people's suffering for a moment as there is in "focusing" on it. To ease someone's pain through a distracting, silly, joyous laugh is his lesson. I know there is suffering, so to escape it for a second is truly powerful. That is one church I am staying loyal to. The Church of Laughing.

I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?

I always take life with a grain of salt. . . plus a slice of lemon and a shot of tequila.

The difference between in-laws and outlaws? Outlaws are wanted.

I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.

May God protect me from gloomy saints.

One of my favorite authors (okay, my favorite nonfiction author) is Robert Benson. His word choices bring me a sense of calm humor, peace, a deeper understanding of God's heart and mind