Sense Of Humor famous quotes

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
-- Alice Meynell

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I love poking fun at myself. I have a rather mean sense of humor.
-- Alton Brown

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I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality
-- Amber Tamblyn

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Fate has a twisted sense of humor.
-- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

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A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope.
-- Andrew Solomon

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I have a very dark sense of humor.
-- Andy Dick

#Dark #Sense Of Humor

I've got a great sense of humor.
-- Anthony Hopkins

#Humor #Sense Of Humor

Anyone without a sense of humor is too pretentious to be a good magician.
-- Anton Szandor LaVey

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Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of humor - they are too subtle to seem Spanish.
-- Antonio Munoz Molina

#Important #Irony #Sense Of Humor

One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.
-- Ayn Rand

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The friendship that we established early on in our marriage ... that carries you through tough times. That and a good sense of humor.
-- Barack Obama

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I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.
-- Bel Kaufman

#Distance #Perspective #Sense Of Humor

I'm not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.
-- Ben Stiller

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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
-- Bertolt Brecht

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If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble.
-- Betty White

#Sense Of Humor #Trouble

The future isn't just something that happens. It's a brutal force, with a great sense of humor, that'll steamroll you if you're not watching.
-- Cameron Crowe

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The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.
-- Candace Bushnell

#Play #May #Sense Of Humor

People who know me know I have a sense of humor that can really push the envelope.
-- Carmen Electra

#People #Envelopes #Sense Of Humor

Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.
-- Chad Smith

#Serious #Jazz #Sense Of Humor

I think it's terribly difficult to take sex seriously if you've got a sense of humor.
-- Charlotte Bingham

#Sex #Thinking #Sense Of Humor

A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage.
-- Chris Rock

#Long #Way #Sense Of Humor

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

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Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles.
-- Colin Quinn

#Style #Different #Sense Of Humor

We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.
-- Connie Nielsen

#Choices #Sense Of Humor #Scandinavia

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.
-- Criss Jami

#Philosopher #Sense Of Humor #Reverse

A sense of humor isn't everything. It's only 90 percent of everything.
-- Cynthia Heimel

#Humor #Sense Of Humor

Never trust a theologian who doesn't have a sense of humor.
-- D. Elton Trueblood

#Sense Of Humor #Never Trust #Theologian

Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.
-- Dan Auerbach

#Band #Sense Of Humor

My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.
-- Dane Cook

#Comedy #Sense Of Humor

As I get older, my sense of humor is my biggest asset.
-- David Alan Grier

#Sense Of Humor #Assets

Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does.
-- David Rakoff

#Doe #Sense Of Humor #Persons

I've learned to have a sense of humor about myself. Lord knows everyone else does!
-- Debbie Gibson

#Doe #Sense Of Humor

Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.
-- Dee Dee Myers

#Hurt #Sense Of Humor #Sanity

Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.
-- Dick Van Dyke

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Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
-- E. B. White

#Believe #Humor #Sense Of Humor

Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor.
-- Edgar Fiedler

#Growth #Statistics #Sense Of Humor

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

#People #May #Sense Of Humor

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
-- Edward Albee

#Ridiculous #Sense Of Humor #Fine

Feminist humor raises consciousness. And the reason it's funny is because it stands something on its head. Goodness knows you've got to have a sense of humor if you do feminism full-time, I tell you.
-- Eleanor Smeal

#Feminist #Feminism #Sense Of Humor

Honest change? Honest? Has someone altered the definition of the word while my back was turned, or have you recently developed a sense of humor?
-- Ellen Kushner

#Definitions #Sense Of Humor #Honest

I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn't have a sense of humor. He never has anything funny in his stories.
-- Elmore Leonard

#Writing #Stories #Sense Of Humor

The darker the film, the more vital everyone's sense of humor is on set.
-- Eric Bana

#Sense Of Humor #Film

Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.
-- Evelyn Underhill

#Saint #Sense Of Humor #Virtue

I don't have a very quick sense of humor.
-- Florenz Ziegfeld

#Humor #Sense Of Humor

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.
-- Fred Allen

#Sense Of Humor

So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.
-- Freeman Dyson

#Long #Too Late #Sense Of Humor

Life ain't easy. Terrible things happen to everyone. You have to keep your sense of humor, give something of yourself to others, make friends who are younger than you, learn new things, and have fun.
-- George Vaillant

#Fun #Giving #Sense Of Humor

The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren't quite sure if they liked me and they didn't know whether or not that I was sensitive.
-- Geraldine Ferraro

#Feisty #Tough #Sense Of Humor

Do feminists have a sense of humor? Yes.
-- Gloria Allred

#Feminist #Sense Of Humor

Kipling: Where's your sense of humor? Rebis: We're working on reconstructing it...
-- Grant Morrison

#Sense Of Humor #Kipling

If Bob Dylan really is an historian in and of himself in his work, in his performances, he is also an historian with a unique sense of humor. There's always been a bit of a stand-up comic in him.
-- Greil Marcus

#Unique #Bob #Sense Of Humor

The saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor.
-- Hans Urs von Balthasar

#Aunt #Saint #Sense Of Humor

A sense of humor is regarded as a sign of mental health - apart from excessive punning, which is another matter entirely.
-- Helen Cresswell

#Matter #Sense Of Humor #Mental Health

Hopefully, one enhances [when growing older] his sense of humor. As he approaches 50, he'll need all the humor he can get.
-- Henry Rollins

#Needs #Growing #Sense Of Humor

If I didn't have a sense of humor, how could I stand this trial now?
-- Hermann Goring

#Trials #Sense Of Humor

A sense of humor is needed armor.
-- Hugh Sidey

#Armor #Sense Of Humor #Needed

and he would probably not agree with my conviction that a sense of humor is the main measure of sanity. But who can say for sure? Humor is a very private thing.
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Sense Of Humor #Sanity #Conviction

Did the Order return your sense of humor as part of the severance package?
-- Ilona Andrews

#Order #Return #Sense Of Humor

Don't forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
-- Ina May Gaskin

#Sense Of Humor #Forget #Labor

I have a really dark, rich, thick sense of humor.
-- Inga Muscio

#Dark #Sense Of Humor #Rich

I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.
-- Ivan Reitman

#Thinking #Sense Of Humor #Born

Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain to be some minority group offended.
-- Jack Germond

#Groups #Minorities #Sense Of Humor

Does God have a sense of humor? He must have if He created us.
-- Jackie Gleason

#Doe #Sense Of Humor

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
-- James Thurber

#Fun #World #Sense Of Humor

The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.
-- Jason Alexander

#Directors #Sense Of Humor #Made

The Who had a great sense of humor. And they were also very serious when it came down to making music.
-- Jason Reece

#Serious #Sense Of Humor

Sense of humor is important in life, not just in clothing. How boring to live a life in beige.
-- Jean Pigozzi

#Important #Sense Of Humor #Boring

From my dad ... I think we have a similar sense of humor. I don't know if that's a good or bad thing, but I think he's funny!
-- Jenna Bush

#Dad #Thinking #Sense Of Humor

If someone is genuine, compassionate and kind, that is a turn-on. A sense of humor is a huge turn on, and that goes hand in hand with intelligence.
-- Jennifer Nettles

#Hands #Sense Of Humor #Kind

A German sense of humor is an oxymoron.
-- Joan Rivers

#Sense Of Humor #Oxymoron

I used to be neurotic. I didn't like myself very much. But somewhere in my mid-40s, my neuroses stopped seeming so important. I developed a sense of humor.
-- Joanne Woodward

#Important #Neurosis #Sense Of Humor

Dali had a good sense of humor - obviously you could tell just looking at him; he was funny.
-- Joe Grant

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I think everybody you know, we all have a sense of humor and I'm not one to take myself too seriously.
-- John Cena

#Thinking #Sense Of Humor

I think we're all born with a sense of humor. Creativity is another thing though.
-- John Cleese

#Creativity #Thinking #Sense Of Humor

Sense of humor is so much more subjective than anyone believes.
-- John Cleese

#Believe #Sense Of Humor

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.
-- John Lithgow

#Sense Of Humor #Infantile

The person who has a sense of humor is not just more relaxed in the face of a potentially stressful situation, but is more flexible in his approach.
-- John Morreall

#Laughter #Faces #Sense Of Humor

If a girl doesn't have a sense of humor, then what would you have to talk about?
-- Josh Hartnett

#Girl #Humor #Sense Of Humor

Haven't lost your sense of humor after all but your sense of identity is what seems to have been misplaced. No. Wrong. You don't lose what you never had.
-- Judith Guest

#Identity #Sense Of Humor #Lost

I'm convinced that it's energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm.
-- Judith Krantz

#Two #Energy #Sense Of Humor

I have a good sense of humor. I think everything we do should have whimsy in it.
-- Judith Leiber

#Thinking #Whimsy #Sense Of Humor

There are many things we can live without but a sense of humor is not one of them!
-- Judy Woodruff

#Sense Of Humor

Keeping a sense of humor about life. My parents divorced when I was 8, and whenever I felt down, my mom would remind me that a sense of humor gets you through just about anything.
-- Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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My family has been amazing, and they understand how blessed I am. They've been able to keep my sense of humor.
-- Karen Duffy

#Blessed #Able #Sense Of Humor

It's hard not to immediately fall in love witha dog who has a good sense of humor.
-- Kate DiCamillo

#Dog #Falling In Love #Sense Of Humor

... there is nothing so debilitating to a naturally weak sense of humor as selling tickets behind a grating ...
-- Kate Douglas Wiggin

#Tickets #Sense Of Humor #Selling

A lot of stars don't have a sense of humor.
-- Kathy Griffin

#Stars #Humor #Sense Of Humor

Nature has a pretty sick sense of humor.
-- Kelly Braffet

#Nature #Sick #Sense Of Humor

Don't quit your day jobs, boys, but always keep your sense of humor.
-- Kimberly Guilfoyle

#Jobs #Boys #Sense Of Humor

Guys usually like my sense of humor, and I am pretty down to earth. And I'm a driven person.
-- Kreayshawn

#Guy #Earth #Sense Of Humor

You can always tell somebody's sense of humor by if they like this movie or not.
-- Kurt Russell

#Sense Of Humor

I don't really think of myself as quirky; I have sort of an unusual sense of humor.
-- Kyle MacLachlan

#Thinking #Quirky #Sense Of Humor

You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.
-- Lance Bass

#Sense Of Humor #Sanity

Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.
-- Lara Flynn Boyle

#Men #Sense Of Humor

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
-- Larry Gelbart

#Humor #Sense Of Humor

I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
-- Larry Wall

#Sorry #Sense Of Humor #Computer

Charm is the enchanted dart, light and subtle as a hummingbird. But it is deceptive in one thing: like a sense of humor, if you think you've got it, you probably haven't.
-- Laurel Lea

#Thinking #Light #Sense Of Humor

The federal government has never been known for its sense of humor.
-- Laurell K. Hamilton

#Government #Federal Government #Sense Of Humor

Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.
-- Lee Westwood

#Sarcastic #Sarcasm #Sense Of Humor

All good activities which encourage people to learn how to live with one another pleasantly and to develop a sense of humor improve living.
-- Leonard Carmichael

#People #Sense Of Humor