Sense Of Humor Quotes - Page 12

• A sense of humor saves your life, and being able to make friends wherever you go.

  Jason O'Mara

  Able

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• But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Writing, Dark, Wicked

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• Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense - adapting one-self to circumstances - and a sense of humor.

  Beatrice Lillie

  Self, Average, Common Sense

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• Seriousness is a sickness; your sense of humor makes you more human, more humble. The sense of humor - according to me - is one of the most essential parts of religiousness.

  Rajneesh

  Humble, Aquariums, Essentials

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• If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.

  Teri Garr

  Attitude, Diagnosis, Therapy

  "Multiple Sclerosis". The Washington Post Live Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 2, 2004.

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• I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Distance, Thinking, Would Be

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• Among animals, one has a sense of humor. Humor saves a few steps, it saves years.

  Marianne Moore

  Animal, Years, Steps

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.119, Penguin

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• The righteous one has no sense of humor.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Humor, Righteous

  Bertolt Brecht (1964). “Baal, A Man's a Man, and The Elephant Calf: Early Plays by Bertolt Brecht”

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• Sense of humor: A thread of illuminated intelligence that links two opposite ideas.

  Thomas Lansing Masson

  Humor, Opposites, Ideas

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• An uncontrolled sense of humor is often costly in business.

  William Feather

  Humor

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• I think a sense of humor is the emotional equivalent of a sense of realism. One should not take everything seriously, and everybody takes some things seriously.

  Michael Maccoby

  Humor, Emotional, Thinking

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• What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor

  H. L. Mencken

  Punishment, May, Morality

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• I love life, and I have a lot of gratitude. There have been a lot of bumps in the road, but my sense of humor gets me through a lot.

  Shelley Morrison

  Gratitude, Love Life, Bumps

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• God probably thinks it’s worth giving a sense of humor only to those of us who have to laugh at all the rubbish bits that are wrong with us.

  Allison Pearson

  Thinking, Giving, Laughing

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• Haven't lost your sense of humor after all but your sense of identity is what seems to have been misplaced. No. Wrong. You don't lose what you never had.

  Judith Guest

  Identity, Lost, Misplaced

  Judith Guest (1982). “Ordinary People”, p.15, Penguin

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• I hang out with the nerdy people they have a different sense of humor than most kids.

  Liam Aiken

  Kids, People, Different

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• I thought my family was really funny. Everybody in my family was funny. My mom and dad both have great senses of humor and really saw the funny in stuff, so I think that's probably where it came from. I always try to see the funny in things.

  Christine Ebersole

  Mom, Dad, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Because of the movies I make, people get nervous. They think of me as difficult and angry. I am difficult and angry, but they don't expect a sense of humor. And the only thing that gets me through is a sense of humor.

  Martin Scorsese

  Thinking, People, Nervous

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• I mean, yeah, I'm sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor, but I don't think it's all that different than the American sense of humor.

  Simon Pegg

  Humor, Mean, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

  Simon Pegg

  Humor, Thinking, Self

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People love to admit they have bad handwriting or that they can't do math. And they will readily admit to being awkward: 'I'm such a klutz!' But they will never admit to having a poor sense of humor or being a bad driver.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Math, Sarcasm

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.191, Hachette UK

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• I'm really happy I went to a Catholic school because a lot of the repressive tactics they use make for great senses of humor.

  Denis Leary

  School, Catholic, Use

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• My dad was very much a John Wayne kind of guy, but he was also a great guy, great sense of humor, a real dedicated dad. I don't think he ever missed a hockey game I was in.

  Denis Leary

  Dad, Real, Hockey

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• An individual deficient in the sense of humor represents more of a challenge to our idea of the human than a person of subnormal intelligence

  Christopher Hitchens

  Ideas, Challenges, Individual

  Christopher Hitchens (2001). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• And of course these days I feel like there is a nation of us - displaced southerners and children of the working class. We listen to Steve Earle, Mary J. Blige, and k.d. lang. We devour paperback novels and tell evil mean stories, value stubbornness above patience and a sense of humor more than a college education. We claim our heritage with a full appreciation of how often it has been disdained. And let me promise you, you do not want to make us angry.

  Dorothy Allison

  Appreciation, Children, Mean

  Dorothy Allison (2002). “Trash”, p.14, Penguin

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