Quotes about Humor

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

The temptation is to face difficulties from a commonsense standpoint. The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but God.

Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. God designed an ostrich. If He didn't do it, He permitted a drunken angel to do it. Empirical facts can add significantly to the meaning of "being godlike".

A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance.

so is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “I was only joking!”

Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

And you know, whether it's drama or comedy, the best work is based on truth. It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully, because that's where the humor comes from. So it's not that difficult to cross over.

Well now, if that ain't a ray of sunshine," one of the men declared.

Before you develop a conscience, torture is amusing.

I have always been a Laugher, disturbing people who are not laughers, upsetting whole audiences at theatres... I laugh, that's all. I love to laugh. Laugher to me is being alive. I have had rotten times, and I have laughed through them. Even in the midst of the very worst times I have laughed.

This was such bad writing that it was good.