Sense Of Humor Quotes - Page 11

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

  William Feather

  Humor

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

  Jason O'Mara

  Able

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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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• Not everybody, however, has a genuine sense of humor. That calls for an altruistic detachment from oneself and a mysterious sympathy with others which is felt even before they open their mouths. Only the person who has also a gift for affection can have a true sense of humor. A good laugh is a sign of love; it may be said to give us a glimpse of, or a first lesson in, the love that God bears for every one of us.

  Karl Rahner

  Giving, Laughing, Glimpse

  Karl Rahner (1973). “Belief today: three theological meditations”, Sheed & Ward Ltd

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• No man with a sense of humor ever founded a religion.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Work, Men

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• In my opinion, sexiness comes down to three things: chemistry, sense of humor, and treatment of waitstaff at restaurants. If the sparks don’t fly from the beginning, they never will. If he doesn’t get your sense of humor from the first conversation, you’ll always secretly be looking for someone who does. And if a guy can’t see restaurant servers as real people, with needs and dreams and crappy jobs, then I don’t want to be with him, even if he just won the Pulitzer Prize.

  Rhoda Janzen

  Dream, Jobs, Real

  Rhoda Janzen (2011). “Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home”, p.158, Atlantic Books Ltd

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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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• 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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• Eve: "What do you want?" Nadine: "A man of amazing sexual prowess, great sensitivity, stupendous abs, and the face of an angel. Toss in a wicked sense of humor and stupendous wealth, who adores the very ground I walk on. Oh wait, you already have him.

  Nora Roberts

  Angel, Men, Waiting

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• Anyone without a sense of humor is too pretentious to be a good magician.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Pretentious, Magician

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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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• 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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• In my opinion, sexiness comes down to three things: chemistry, sense of humor, and treatment of waitstaff at restaurants.

  Rhoda Janzen

  Three, Opinion, Chemistry

  Rhoda Janzen (2011). “Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home”, p.158, Atlantic Books Ltd

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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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• We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.

  Connie Nielsen

  Choices, Scandinavia, Certain

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

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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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