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Humor Quotes


"I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor."


"A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth."


"Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness."


"Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever."


"Mind isn't as serious as my mind makes it out to be."


"You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other."


"Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots."


"Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore."


"The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren't quite sure if they liked me and they didn't know whether or not that I was sensitive."


"If he's not a wreck without you, you married the wrong man."


"Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them."


"Then after that came word processors and it's hard to make those laugh."


"The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job."


"There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it."


"Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties."


"Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor."


"As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book."


"Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it."


"Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin."


"You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor."


"It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required."


"Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor."


"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."


"I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself."


"At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic."


"I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming."
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