Quotes and Sayings about Humor & Comedy

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Quotes and Sayings about Humor & Comedy

If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.

Sam in Garden State

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He who can make people laugh has to be taken seriously; all people with power know that.

Werner Finck

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If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.

Erma Bombeck

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Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age.

Theodor Seuss Geisel

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Craziness & Weirdness

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

Charles Dickens

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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

Langston Hughes

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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

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My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world.

Warwick Davis

People who can put on a serious face while joking are the scariest.

Shirou Emiya in Fate/stay night

People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.

Ricky Gervais

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

Stan Laurel

You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.

I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.

Olivia Colman

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

Molly Ivins

Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.

Garry Shandling

Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.

Hattie McDaniel

Humour allows people to exhale a little.

I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly.

Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.

The only way to survive is to have a sense of humour.

Bob Newhart

People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.

Bob Newhart

To single out a particular group and say we can't make a joke about them is almost a form of prejudice and it's kind of patronizing.

Sacha Baron Cohen

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

Jimmy Buffett

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

Mignon McLaughlin

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

Erma Bombeck

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

Theodor Seuss Geisel

The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow.

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For the soul, laughing is what oxygen is for the lungs.

Louis de Funès

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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

Herman Melville in Moby-Dick

Laughing & Smile Positive Quotes

A smile is the shortest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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Leonard: "For God's sake, Sheldon, do I have to... hold up a sarcasm sign every time I open my mouth?"
Sheldon: "You have a sarcasm sign?"

Sheldon Cooper in The Big Bang Theory - Season 1 Episode 2

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What? Scott, come on. I'm 147 pounds of pale skin and fragile bone, okay? Sarcasm is my only defense.

Stiles Stilinski in Teen Wolf

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Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow in sad memories and allow themselves to be provoked this easily - weak people, in other words.

Severus Snape in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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Take your job seriously, but don't take yourself too seriously.

Alex Trebek

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Seriousness Craziness & Weirdness

"Really?"
"No. I'm being ironic. Or is it sarcastic? I can never remember."
"Irony's cleverer, so you're probably being sarcastic."

Jonathan Stroud in Lockwood & Co. - 1: The Screaming Staircase

Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.

Carl Reiner

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There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

Erma Bombeck

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Children & Childhood Christmas

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.

Theodor Seuss Geisel

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Memories Moments

Don't live in the past. There's no point. You can't change anything. What a waste of time.

Bob Newhart

It's like you're homesick for a place that doesn't even exist.

Garden State

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Desire Breakup Home

Smiling is the most elegant way to show someone your teeth.

Werner Finck

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Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.

Molly Ivins

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There are many people in the country today who, through no fault of their own, are sane. Some of them were born sane. Some of them became sane later in their lives.

Graham Chapman

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Reason & Sanity Craziness & Weirdness

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol

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Children & Childhood Christmas

Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

Pain / Nagato in Naruto

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Life Pain Hurting Falling down

It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

Helsinki in Money Heist - Season 4 Episode 5

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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

Langston Hughes

Ambition Motivation

Summer romances end for all kinds of reasons. But when all is said and done, they have one thing in common: They are shooting stars-a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, a fleeting glimpse of eternity. And in a flash, they're gone.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

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Summer Shooting Stars

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