Quotes about Humor
Another of Halliday's jokes—according to one of his favorite novels, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the number 42 was the "Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.
— Ernest Cline
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
— Ernest Hemingway
It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
— GK Chesterton
If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.
— Frederic William Farrar
Firstly, I will never leave comedy because I love doing it. Secondly, it's the genre that has given me acceptance and immense love from the audience.
— Varun Sharma
Good humor and laughter are far too wonderful not to come straight from the heart of God.
— Beth Moore
A horse walks into a bar, and the barman says "Why the long face?". The horse replies: "I'm deeply troubled by the anthropomorphic aspects of my existence and the extent to which I am now protected by law."
— Bill Bailey
I feel sorry for James Blunt, he has to wake up every morning and think 'Oh my God, I'm James Blunt, what have I done?'
— Bill Bailey
I got ham but I'm not a Hamster
— Bill Bailey
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
— Mark Twain
I believe it is tough to be funny and tougher to make people laugh. And it needs to be been done effortlessly. A joke can be comedy, but one can kill the joke if it is delivered badly.
— Vivek Oberoi
Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?
— Mark Twain