Humor Quotes

157. In the ‘Hurt Locker’ there’s a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.

^{Jeremy Renner}

158. Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.

^Eminem

159. Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man’s superiority to all that befalls him.

^{Romain Gary}

160. There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.

^{Sinclair Lewis}

161. When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it’s just wonderful.

^{Francois Truffaut}

162. The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that’s how self-loathing is made palatable.

^{James Gray}

163. The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

^{Alfred North Whitehead}

164. Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

^{Mark Van Doren}

165. When humor works, it works because it’s clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.

^{Tina Fey}

166. Humor is healing.

^{Brad Garrett}

167. Brains and a sense of humor trump everything else.

^{Ryan Paevey}

168. I’ve got a great sense of humor, and if I’m able to say or do something in a movie that people feel like they want to repeat, that’s hugely flattering.

^{Matthew McConaughey}

169. They say you don’t want to meet your heroes, but those two guys, you do want to meet them, because they do not disappoint. Walken has this amazing sense of humor, and Pacino is like just a sweetheart of a guy.

^{Bill Burr}

170. I am often the brunt of my own humor.

^{Charles R. Swindoll}

171. I want someone who can keep me on my toes, has a good sense of humor and a good heart.

^{Carmen Electra}

172. I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character.

^{Suzanne Vega}

173. Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don’t call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.

^{William Collins}

174. I’ve used my sense of humor as a coping tool. It’s gotten me through a lot of challenging times.

^{Adam Rippon}

175. God has a most wicked sense of humor.

^{Maureen O’Hara}

176. No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

^{Samuel Taylor Coleridge}

177. Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn’t funny. It’s a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it’s not a surprise anymore.

^{Garrison Keillor}

178. Gallows humor is part of our coping mechanism. It’s part of our grief process. If we don’t know what else to do, we laugh. That’s a very real thing.

^{James Roday}

179. A strong sense of humor, a really awesome personality, and maturity is also really important in a boyfriend. I tend to only be attracted to older guys for that reason. I just love guys who have a really strong sense of who they are.

^{Elizabeth Gillies}

180. I believe God, too, has a sense of humor.

^{Keith Thurman}

181. I’m not just a big-haired redhead country singer who dresses flamboyantly, has this wicked sense of humor and wears rhinestones.

^{Naomi Judd}

182. What we’re doing is fun – if you have any sense of humor at all!

^{Calvin Klein}

183. In the household in which I was raised, the themes were pretty simple. ‘Work hard. Don’t quit. Be appreciative, be thankful, be grateful, be respectful. Also, never whine, never complain. Andalways, for crying out loud, keep a sense of humor.’

^{Michael Keaton}

184. My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.

^{Bernie Mac}

185. Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

^{Sidonie Gabrielle Colette}

186. Humor can be one of our best survival tools.

^{Allen Klein}

187. Humor has been the balm of my life, but it’s been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.

^{Lana Turner}

188. My sense of humor lies a little closer to the middle.

^{Jason Bateman}

189. Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

^{Thomas Browne}

190. We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.

^{Bobby Clarke}

191. I do not have a sense of humor of any recognizable sort.

^{Tommy Lee Jones}

192. Humor is the most precious gift I can give to my reader, a reminder that the world is not such a terribly serious place. There is more than video games and drugs and nuclear threats; there is laughter, and there is hope.

^{James Howe}

193. I love British humor. It’s just so – surreal.

^Beck

194. I hate to say it but I hate black humor. I feel like a Klan member saying it, but it’s just not funny.

^{Issa Rae}

195. Everybody I know who is funny, it’s in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don’t like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.

^{Carol Burnett}

196. It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.

^{Edgar Rice Burroughs}

197. Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It’s like medicine – very healing.

^{Max Irons}

198. Let’s not call physical comedy falling down and pratfalls. All humor is physical, no matter how you dish it out. It’s timing, like a dancer or an athlete would have.

^{Chevy Chase}

199. I think God has a sense of humor, and the way my lessons come from God is very funny. I have to laugh at myself even if it’s a tough lesson.

^{Yvette Nicole Brown}

200. Humor, humility, and, of course, honesty, all are qualities that work in public and cultural diplomacy.

^{Cynthia P. Schneider}

201. Working on newspapers, you’re writing to a certain length, often very brief pieces; you tend to look for easy forms of humor – women can’t drive, things like that. That’s about the level of a lot of newspaper humor. It becomes a form of laziness.

^{Tom Wolfe}

202. Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

^{Malcolm Muggeridge}

203. Absurdity is my favorite brand of humor because deep down inside, in our subconscious, it’s all surrealism. It’s all abstract. The world is the surrealism, the absurdity, the humor – it all just ^overlaps.

^{Weyes Blood}

204. In everyday life, I use positive thoughts, sense of humor, Taekwondo, running, and yoga to make me stronger.

^{Pom Klementieff}

205. Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.

^{Hattie McDaniel}

206. What we’ve discovered is that Americans seem to love our saucy humor.

^{Benny Hill}

207. There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

^{Miguel de Cervantes}

208. Since the very beginning, Emeril’s had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him.

^{Anthony Bourdain}