Quotes on Humor

Blacks had survived every form of human debasement with ingenuity, self-reliance, a deep and ironic humor, a capacity for self-reinvention and a heroic fortitude. But we had no experience of wide-open freedom.

Maybe there's a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people.

I want to have fun. Life ain't no dress rehearsal. I want to have fun. I'm a comedian; I ain't no politician. So everything I do is with humor, with love.

Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.

God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.

Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH,' the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

If you can't hear me, it's because I'm in parentheses.

I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.

I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got there.

If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?