Quotes about Humor
A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance.
— Job 41:29
so is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “I was only joking!”
— Proverbs 26:19
Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.
— Tom Lehrer
Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
— Tom Lehrer
Well now, if that ain't a ray of sunshine," one of the men declared.
— Tracie Peterson
Before you develop a conscience, torture is amusing.
— Paul Graham
I have always been a Laugher, disturbing people who are not laughers, upsetting whole audiences at theatres... I laugh, that's all. I love to laugh. Laugher to me is being alive. I have had rotten times, and I have laughed through them. Even in the midst of the very worst times I have laughed.
— William Saroyan
This was such bad writing that it was good.
— William Saroyan
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.
— Herman Melville
I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five
— Oscar Wilde
I never truly believed that human business was some serious thing.
— Albert Camus
Laugh and grow strong.
— Ignatius of Loyola