Humor Quotes

“Comrades, we are going to try to cheer you up, and our sense of humor will help us in this endeavor, although the phrase gallows humor has never seemed so logical and appropriate. The external circumstances are exactly in our favor. We need only to take a look at the barbed wire fences, so high and full of electricity. Just like your expectations.And then there are the watchtowers that monitor our every move. The guards have machine guns. But machine guns won’t intimidate us, comrades. They just have barrels of guns, whereas we are going to have barrels of laughs.You may be surprised at how upbeat and cheerful we are. Well, comrades, there are goods reasons for this. It’s been a long time since we were in Berlin. But every time we appeared there, we felt very uneasy. We were afraid we’d get sent to the concentration camps. Now that fear is gone. We’re already here.”

“What life is to humor, humor is to life.”

“Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.”

“I like telling stories with a sense of humor. But humor can also distance you from the subject you're writing about. I'm interested in using humor as a portal to something a bit more serious.”

“I write humor as it's pretty much the only thing keeping me out of an asylum.”

“Joy, humor, and laughter should be part of everyone's spiritual life. They are gifts from God and help us enjoy creation.”

“I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?”

“The interesting thing about humor is that in humor, you - in logic, something is A or not A. In humor, it's both A and not A.”

“The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.”