Sense Of Humor Quotes - Page 10

• You have to maintain who you are as a person and stay true to yourself - that's my biggest moral as a human being, as well as a very self-deprecating sense of humor.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Self, Moral, Stay True

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• It's very important when making a friend to check and see if they have a private plane. People think a good personality trait in a friend is kindness or a sense of humor. No, in a friend a good personality trait is a Gulfstream.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Friends, Kindness, Thinking

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• We [people] may enjoy this fleeting beauty [of life] for such a brief instance. And then we are compost. G - , the creator-destroyer, certainly has a strange sense of humor!

  Sam Keen

  People, Fleeting, May

  Source: www.spiritualityandpractice.com

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• The thing to remember is that children are temporary. As soon as they develop a sense of humor and get to be good company, maybe even remember to take the trash out and close the refrigerator door, they pack up their electronic equipment and their clothes, and some of your clothes, and leave in a U-Haul, to return only at Thanksgiving.

  Barbara Holland

  Children, Doors, Clothes

  Barbara Holland (1996). “One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone”

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• We all know what feminists are. They are shrill, overly aggressive, man-hating, ball-busting, selfish, hairy, extremist, deliberately unattractive women with absolutely no sense of humor who see sexism at every turn. They make men's testicles shrivel up to the size of peas, they detest the family and think all children should be deported or drowned.

  Susan J. Douglas

  Children, Hate, Selfish

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• When you involve people, they come out, you see them, you get to see their sense of humor.

  Annie Leibovitz

  People

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• Remember to build each other up, to strengthen and sustain, to keep companionship lovely and alive. Remember dignity and respect; understanding; not expecting perfection; a sense of humor and a sense of what is sacred and serious; common purposes, common convictions, and the character to stay with a bargain, to keep a covenant - in these are the making of a good and solid marriage.

  Richard L. Evans

  Character, Common Purpose, Perfection

  Richard L. Evans (1973). “Richard L. Evans--the man and the message”

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• A general truth is to have a good sense of humor. Roll with the punches of life's ups and downs. Laughing at yourself always helps.

  Jill Abramson

  Laughing, Helping, Truth Is

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• I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.

  Barbara Feldon

  Knights, Two Sides, Knowing

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• Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor.

  Edgar Fiedler

  Funny, Humor, Growth

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• Three Scotsmen of the clan McKay were looking for a fourth member to fight four members of the Irish clan Magee ... 'I'm not one of you,' my father pointed out. 'You see, I'm one of the clan M-c-C-A-Y.' And that is how I got both my name and my sense of humor.

  Winsor McCay

  Father, Fighting, Names

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• Nature has a pretty sick sense of humor.

  Kelly Braffet

  Nature, Sick

  Kelly Braffet (2012). “Josie and Jack: A Novel”, p.236, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.

  Ivan Reitman

  Humor, Thinking, Born

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• The soul is not a physical entity, but instead refers to everything about us that is not physical - our values, memories, identity, sense of humor. Since the soul represents the parts of the human being that are not physical, it cannot get sick, it cannot die, it cannot disappear. In short, the soul is immortal.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Memories, Sick, Soul

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• I hope you will be yourself, human, even a little sentimental, possessed of a sense of humor and a sense of humility. . . . There are arrogant people in this world and, what is worse, arrogant judges.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Being Yourself, Humility, People

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• Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

  Carter Burwell

  Views, Taste, Sides

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• If you haven't got a sense of humor you're making your life a hundred times harder. It doesn't matter what happens to you, if you can have a laugh about it, and don't take yourself so serious, you have the battles halfway won.

  Jack Bruce

  Laughing, Battle, Matter

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• I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

  Robert Cormier

  Inspirational, Teenager, Teens

  Interview with Lyn Gardner, www.theguardian.com. November 05, 2000.

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• Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.

  Thomas More

  Giving, May, Lord

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• Whence comes this idea that if what we are doing is fun, it can't be God's will? The God who made giraffes, a baby's fingernails, a puppy's tail, a crooknecked squash, the bobwhite's call, and a young girl's giggle, has a sense of humor. Make no mistake about that.

  Catherine Marshall

  Happiness, Girl, Baby

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• A gentle sense of humor will be alert to detect anything that savors of a pious 'act' on the part of the penitent.

  Thomas Merton

  Gentle, Theologian, Pious

  Thomas Merton (1960). “Spiritual Direction and Meditation”, p.40, Liturgical Press

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• A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having.

  Mark Twain

  Human Nature, One Thing

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• I brought home a baby without telling [husband John McCain], and he not only took it in stride but loved it, immediately embracing Bridget, who shares John's very dry sense of humor, so she and her dad do pretty well together. If I hadn't taken Bridget out, I think she would have become a prostitute or worse, died.

  Cindy McCain

  Mom, Baby, Husband

  "Cindy McCain: Myth vs. Reality" by Nancy Collins, www.harpersbazaar.com. July 1, 2007.

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• I love the diversity of America. I love the plain, normal sense of humor Americans have. It is not wicked, like in some countries. And I also love how new America is.

  Antonio Banderas

  Country, America, Diversity

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• Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.

  Lee Westwood

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Sometimes

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