Quotes about Humor

There are 17 more shopping days until Christmas. So, guys, that means 16 more days till we start shopping, right?

Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey.

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

Lord, if you can't make me thin, then make my friends look fat," humorist Erma Bombeck once prayed.

I am absolutely at ease working in a comedy.

Comedy was always an escape for me; I just happened to be a doctor.

After a half century of ministry, F. J. Hallett claimed that in the actual work of a parish, the most successful leader is the one who possesses a keen sense of humor combined with a clear sense of God's grace.

A good test of the appropriateness of a joke is whether the humor controls us or we control it.

I have never met leadership without a sense of humor; this ability to stand outside oneself and one's circumstances, to see things in perspective and laugh. It is a great safety value! You will never lead others far without the joy of the Lord and its concomitant, a sense of humor.3

Douglas Thornton [an English Christian missionary to Cairo, Egypt with the Church Missionary Society from 1898-1907] was often more amusing than he tried to be. He had a delightful way of mixing up two kindred proverbs or idioms. Once he told his companions that he always had two strings up his sleeve. They then asked him if he had another card to his bow. Such exchanges enliven heavy committee eetings and create wholesome laughter.

Criticized for including humor in a sermon, Charles Spurgeon, eye twinkling, said: "If only you knew how much I hold back, you would commend me." Later

Science would like to tell us that people laugh because of the benign violation theory, but comedy doesn't have hard rules.