Quotes on Humor

Let me assure you that the humourless as a bunch don't just not know what's funny, they don't know what's serious. They have no common sense, either, and shouldn't be trusted with anything.

A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.

In the factory we make cosmetics. In the store we sell hope.

A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money.

Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.

The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It's dismissive. "I don't understand this person. So they're crazy." That's bullshit. These people are not crazy. They strong people. Maybe their environment is a little sick.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.

When you look like your passport photo, it's time to go home.

Oh sorry, I was taking life seriously.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.