Quotes on Humour

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

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a cultural allusion. It is not really clear in the end whether this 'cool' smile is the smile of humour or that of commercial complicity. This is also the case with pop, and its smile ultimately encapsulates all its ambiguity: it is not the smile of critical distance, but the smile of collusion

As Aboriginal people we have always retained our resilience, our humour and our cultural integrity - we will always retain our dreams and a vision for the future for our people.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Again and again, I learn how much friendship enriches my life, bringing warmth, assurance, humour, inspiration, a sense of security. It depends on honesty, trust, loyalty. It's about giving. It's for sharing the good times, but also the tough times, hurt, grief, sadness.

Humour breaks down boundaries, it topples our self-importance, it connects people, and because it engages and entertains, it ultimately enlightens.

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

I have said that each aspect of the novel demands a different quality of the reader. Well, the prophetic aspect demands two qualities: humility and the suspension of the sense of humour.

My wife is way funnier than I am. As much as I don't really feel I share a sense of humour with my family, I definitely share one with her - we find the same things funny.

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.

My final word, before I'm done, Is "Cancer can be rather fun"- Provided one confronts the tumour with a sufficient sense of humour. I know that cancer often kills, But so do cars and sleeping pills; And it can hurt till one sweats, So can bad teeth and unpaid debts. A spot of laughter, I am sure, Often accelerates one's cure; So let us patients do our bit To help the surgeons make us fit.

Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true. Irony is about humour an serious play. It is also a rhetorical strategy and a political method, one I would like to see more honoured within socialist-feminism.

MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.

I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!