Quotes about Humor

Laughter is America's most important export.

She needed what most colored girls needed: a chorus of mamas, grandmamas, aunts, cousins, sisters, neighbors, Sunday school teachers, best girl friends, and what all to give her the strength life demanded of her—and the humor with which to live it.

When they wake up in the morning, they don't say, "Good morning, Lord." Rather, they say, "Good Lord, it's morning.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Comedy = tragedy + time.

When the 30-year-old lawyer died he said to St. Peter, "How can you do this to me? - a heart attack at my age? I'm only 30." Replied St. Peter: "When we looked at your total hours billed we figured you were 95."

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb . . . and I also know that I'm not blonde.

When I was preparing for this speech I asked my family for advice. One member replied, "There's a first time for everything, so try to be funny and brief."

The Eiffel Tower is the Empire State Building after taxes.

That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw.

I feel like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail. To the man who asked how he liked it he said: 'If it wasn't for the honour of the thing, I'd rather walk.'

It gives me great strength to know that half the people I meet are below average.