Quotes on Humor

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.

I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

I never write anything without humor, just because I like humor, but at the same time, it is a way for anything fantastical to become relatable.

Going to AA helped me to see that there were other people who had problems that had found a way to talk about them and find relief and humor through that.

When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard.

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

That's how to make a stand-up comedian: You take a person who is uncomfortable and try to squirrel their way out of it through humor.

The only way I could get comfortable around people was to make them laugh. I was an obedient girl, and humor was my one form of rebellion. I used comedy to deflect. Like, 'Hey, check out my zit!' - you know, making fun of yourself before someone else has a chance to.