Humour Quotes

All humor is rooted in pain.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again

There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.

We haven't got a plan so nothing can go wrong!

Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.

Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.

Cling tight to your sense of humour. You will need it every day.

Goodnight, thank you, and may your God go with you.

I love a girl with a good sense of humour, who is confident but who has a sweetness to her - that melts my heart.

You should laugh everywhere you can find even the slightest glimmer of humour.

One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you open to my ideas

I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.

HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous.

I certainly don't see the humour in my work as something that detracts from its seriousness. It's just a way of making difficult messages more palatable.

The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can prove anything from it.

A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.

It's vital to keep a sense of humour when the world seems to have suddenly become a very strange place.

The best thing about humour is that it shows people they are not alone.

My style is somewhere between that of Tal and Petrosian

Anger and humour are like the left and right arm. They complement each other.

It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.

The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves.

Humour is God's special gift to humanity. Handy, because it turns out to be necessary.

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

I enjoy humour more than anything, I don't really sit around banging my head and crying all the time.

Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.

Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.

Sure, there's no 'i' in team, but there is an 'm' and an 'e'.

There just isn't enough televised Chess

Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me.

The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy.

Apparently, I have a totally different sense of humour.

He laughs best whose laugh lasts.

The only way to survive is to have a sense of humour.

All humour is critical, you know? You make stupid jokes. I mean, stupidity is an infirmity, isn't it?

The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.

As soon as I got funny, I killed any majestic intentions in my work.

At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour.

Now I have the pawn and the compensation.

The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no sense of humour.

That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.

I consider myself something of a raconteur. I have a rather audacious sense of humour.

The comedy gods are smiling on me tonight.

Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant

We've had a day of great drama and of humour too. The rumour mill is now taking over

While it is entirely untrue that Canadians lack a sense of humour, the funniest ones tend to head south: Dan Aykroyd, Jim Carrey, Michael J. Fox.