Humour Quotes

A joke is a very serious thing.
Winston Churchill

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
Henry Ward Beecher

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
Mignon McLaughlin

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke – and that the joke is oneself.
Clifton Paul Fadiman

A sense of humor… is needed armor. Joy in one’s heart and some laughter on one’s lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
Hugh Sidey

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
Jessamyn West

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
William Arthur Ward

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
E. B. White

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
Sid Caesar

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
William James

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
Thomas W. Higginson

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Agnes Repplier

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
Agnes Repplier

Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks

Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.
Mark Twain

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
Irvin S. Cobb

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
Christopher Morley

Humor is reason gone mad.
Groucho Marx

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Good Quotes

Good Quotes

1. “So, where’s the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?” Christina Aguilera
2. “I get to go to lots of overseas places… like Canada.” Britney Spears
3. “I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father.” Golfer Greg Norman
4. “Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can’t help but cry. I mean I’d love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff.” Mariah Carey
5. “I don’t diet. I just don’t eat as much as I’d like to.” Supermodel Linda Evangelista
6. “The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can’t change. After I die, I’ll probably come back as a paintbrush.” Actor Sylvester Stallone
7. “I’m not anorexic. I’m from Texas. Are there people from Texas that are anorexic? I’ve never heard of one. And that includes me.” Jessica Simpson
8. “Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.” Brooke Shields during an anti-smoking campaign interview.
9. “What?s Wal-Mart? Do they sell, like wall stuff?” Paris Hilton
10. “I?ve never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don?t like eating fish. And I know that?s very popular out there in Africa.” Britney Spears
11. “Is this chicken or is this fish? I know it’s tuna but it says chicken by the sea.” Jessica Simpson
12. “I’m not sure if there was a key event that changed me, but I first had sex when I was 14.” Angelina Jolie
13. “I’ve got taste. It’s inbred in me.” David Hasselhoff
14. “I think that the film Clueless was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it’s true lightness.” Alicia Silverstone
15. “I think God is a giant vibrator in the sky … a pulsating force of incredible energy.” David Arquette
16. “I think gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman.” Arnold Schwarzenegger
17. “He speaks English, Spanish, and he?s bilingual too.” Don King
18. “I feel my best when I’m happy.” Winona Ryder
19. “All of a sudden you’re like the Bin Laden of America. Osama Bin Laden is the only one who knows what I’m going through.” R.Kelly
20. “Where is East Angular, is it abroad?” Jade Goody

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