Sense Of Humor Quotes - Page 22

• I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.

  Marlo Thomas

  Dad, Thinking, Laughing

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• I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Dark, Luck, Sides

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

  Lionel Trilling

  Equality, Progressive, Poor

  1950 The Liberal Imagination,'Princess Casamassima'.

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• I've always had a bawdy sense of humor. My father was a traveling salesman and he would bring jokes home. He would say, "Honey, you can take this one to school, but you can't take that one to school."

  Betty White

  Father, Home, School

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.

  Jesse Ventura

  Congratulations, Humor, Mud

  News conference, speaking to reporters, where a few were wearing the "Official Jackal" security passes that he had issued, February 23, 2001.

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• Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Artist

  Codice Atlantico 90

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• All sorts of articles and letters appear in the papers about women. Profound questions are raised concerning them. Should they smoke? Should they work? Vote? Marry? Exist? Are not their skirts too short, or their sleeves? Have they a sense of humor, of honor, of direction? Are spinsters superfluous? But how seldom similar inquiries are propounded about men.

  Rose Macaulay

  Men, Profound, Honor

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• What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.

  Bernard Williams

  Humor, Would Be, World

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• A German sense of humor is an oxymoron.

  Joan Rivers

  Oxymoron

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• A sense of humor is regarded as a sign of mental health - apart from excessive punning, which is another matter entirely.

  Helen Cresswell

  Matter, Mental Health, Punning

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• Friends don't have to have a lot of things in common. But there's one thing friends usually do have in common - a sense of humor. That doesn't mean they find all the same things funny. Sometimes, they might even laugh at each other. But at the end of the day, friends can always laugh with each other.

  Pseudonymous Bosch

  Mean, Laughing, The End Of The Day

  Pseudonymous Bosch (2011). “You Have to Stop This”, p.211, Hachette UK

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• There," Zoë suggested."By the Embarcadero Building." "Good thinking," Chuck said. "Me and Hank can blend in with the pigeons." We all looked at him. "Kidding," he said. "Sheesh, can't a statues have a sense of humor?

  Rick Riordan

  Thinking, Pigeons, Building

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• I'm more than ever of the opinion that a decent human existence is possible today only on the fringes of society, where one then runs the risk of starving or being stoned to death. In these circumstances, a sense of humor is a great help.

  Hannah Arendt

  Running, Risk, Today

  Hannah Arendt (2000). “The Portable Hannah Arendt”, Penguin Group USA

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• A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.

  H. L. Mencken

  Passion, Humor, Patriotic

  "H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series".

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• If a girl doesn't have a sense of humor, then what would you have to talk about?

  Josh Hartnett

  Girl, Humor, Ifs

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• There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away. They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless. I've been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That's the stuff my dreams are made of.

  Al Pacino

  Dream, Real, Thinking

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• When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?

  Max Frisch

  Laughter, Mean, Laughing

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• I have a sense of humor; but over the years that sense has developed one blind spot. I can no longer laugh at ignorance or stupidity. Those are our chief enemies, and it is dangerous to make fun of them.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Fun, Ignorance, Years

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• As a blogger, Chez Pazienza is filled with outrage, passion and insight -- delivered with a distinctive point of view, a wicked sense of humor, and a two-fisted style of prose. In Dead Star Twilight, he turns all these on himself -- and produces a fierce, funny, disturbing, but ultimately uplifting memoir. This is the book A Million Little Pieces dreamed of being.

  Arianna Huffington

  Uplifting, Stars, Book

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• When I give a speech at a corporate event, I often ask those in attendance, 'Do you know how to tell if you're doing the job?' As heads start whispering back and forth, I provide these clue: 'If you're up at 3 A.M. every night talking into a tape recorder and writing notes on scraps of paper, have a knot in your stomach and a rash on your skin, are losing sleep and losing touch with your wife and kids, have no appetite or sense of humor, and feel that everything might turn out wrong, then you're probably doing the job.'

  Bill Walsh

  Jobs, Sleep, Kids

  Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.26, Penguin

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• I think everybody you know, we all have a sense of humor and I'm not one to take myself too seriously.

  John Cena

  Thinking, Knows

  "James Roday and John Cena Grapple with Psych". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. January 22, 2010.

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• When I've had a meltdown, people will say to me, "Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor."

  Lily Tomlin

  People, Meltdowns, Wells

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• God displayed a sense of humor when he configured the region between our legs an entertainment complex built around a sewage system.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Legs, Entertainment, Regions

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• I had no way to have a sense of humor about The Exorcist. I didn't know how. And this enabled me.

  Linda Blair

  Way, Exorcist, Know How

  "Interview With the Exorcist's Linda Blair". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 17, 2000.

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• And with a little sense of humor we can say that there are Christian bats who prefer the shadows to the light of the presence of the Lord.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Light, Shadow

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