Quotes about Humor
This, together with his hanging his coat on the floor on one side of a chair, and his vest on the floor on the other side, and piling his pants on the floor just in front of the same chair, and then contemplating the general result with superstitious awe, and finally pronouncing it "too many for him" and going to bed with his boots on, led us to fear that something he had eaten had not agreed with him.
— Mark Twain
the old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a-man's pocket, because it cut down the doctor's bill like everything.
— Mark Twain
As long as you're in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot. And there
— Mark Twain
The cause of laughter in every case is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real objects which have been thought through it in some relation, and laughter itself is just the expression of this incongruity.... All laughter then is occasioned by a paradox.... This, briefly stated, is the true explanation of the ludicrous.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Do you know what I like about comedy? You can't laugh and be afraid at the same timeāof anything. If you're laughing, I defy you to be afraid.
— Stephen Colbert
Knock Knock. Who's there? The Truth. No joke.
— Stephen Colbert
The pen is mightier than the sword, if you shoot that pen out of a gun.
— Stephen Colbert
If I had one wish, it would be for self-drying pants. Wait -- no! Unlimited wishes! How do I return these stupid pants?!
— Stephen Colbert
All weather is sin-related. Lust causes thunder, anger causes fog, and you don't want to know what causes dew.
— Stephen Colbert
If you're saying farewell to your arms, what do you use to wave goodbye?
— Stephen Colbert
My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
— Erica Jong
Laughter is a rescue.
— Gloria Steinem