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.

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

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

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.

A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

He laughs best whose laugh lasts.

Apparently, I have a totally different sense of humour.

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

I've often said the most difficult things I have to say to people through humour. I can very quickly put someone in their place with it. But we all walk away unscathed because there's been some funnies around it, and I'll usually make sure that it comes back at me.

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.

I can't be funny if my feet don't feel right.

Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.

Sometimes humour is all we have to say the things that can't be said.

You can't take yourself too seriously.

He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.

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