501 private quotes tagged humor

“We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.” — Anne Lamott

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“I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.” — Anne Wilson Schaef

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“Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.” — Jonathan Swift

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“I am often the brunt of my own humor.” — Charles R. Swindoll

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“Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.” — Virginia Woolf

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“It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“Total absence of humor renders life impossible.” — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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“Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities, a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say and it's true, I do have a certain fondness for women that have dark hair.” — Wentworth Miller

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“Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop.” — Allen Klein

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“What's great about the geek spirit is that life never seems to stop us, and they never seem to kill our enthusiasm, our optimism and our hunger to experience the world. We keep our sense of humor, we protect our dignity, we talk to our friends about the experience and then we start again fresh the very next day.” — Paul Feig

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“If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.” — Paul Simon

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“It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.” — Edgar Rice Burroghs

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“Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.” — David Lynch

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“There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better.” — Rita Rudner

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“It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.” — Scott Adams

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“I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It's mean, mean stuff.” — Robert Orben

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“Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.” — Robert Orben

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“Humor comes from self-confidence.” — Rita Mae Brown

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“Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.” — Frank Muir

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“The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.” — William Temple

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“And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.” — Bobby Knight

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“An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.” — Constance Rourke

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“No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.” — Mary Kay Blakely

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“I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home.” — Cathy Guisewite

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