Quotes about Humor

As a teenager I went all Goth, but I wasn't mopey enough. I would pretend to be, but I'd end up making people laugh.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schoolingTo get adapted to my kind of fooling.

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up.

The solution is always spiritual, and it almost never has anything to do with the problem ... laughter is carbonated holiness.

A funny little literary article in the hand is worth at least three Critiques of Pure Reason in the bush.

We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.

The people I grew up around who I really liked were quick on the draw. It always just wowed me. And my mum would make weird funny comments. I can see in myself her self-deprecating, hippie humour. I can't take myself too seriously.

And this filmmaker has the most extraordinary epiphany! He realizes that there is as much merit in trying to ease people's suffering for a moment as there is in "focusing" on it. To ease someone's pain through a distracting, silly, joyous laugh is his lesson. I know there is suffering, so to escape it for a second is truly powerful. That is one church I am staying loyal to. The Church of Laughing.