Quotes about Humor
God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones we break in our rashness or vanity.
- Mark Buchanan
God: a gaseous vertebrate.
- Aldous Huxley
Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God.
- Ellen White
Humor must be one of the chief attributes of God. Plants and animals that are distinctly humorous in form and characteristics are God's jokes.
- Mark Twain
God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad train!
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I'd like to thank God for making me an atheist.
- Ricky Gervais
If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.
- Oscar Wilde
The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but God.
- Oswald Chambers
When I was with Andy Warhol, I thought, 'God, his wig looks cheaper than mine!'
- Dolly Parton
God will forgive me. It's his job." Heine said this on his deathbed (1856). Hilarious. He must have thought that up years before and counted the seconds to use it.
- Heinrich Heine
Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.
- Washington Irving
The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
- William Temple