Humor Quotes

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.

The best defence against misguided arrogance is a keen sense of humour.

What's the point of havin' a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?

If you're at school and you're not that bright or good-looking or popular or whatever, and one day you say something and someone laughs, well, you sort of grab onto it, don't you? you think, well I run funny and I've got this stupid big face and big thighs and no-one fancies me, but at least I can make people laugh. And It's such a nice feeling, making someone laugh, that maybe you get a bit reliant on it. Like, if you're not funny then you're not... anything.

A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella.

There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.