Humor Quotes
“Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny.”
“Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.”
-- Dan Auerbach
“You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.”
-- Terry Bradshaw
“I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release.”
-- Joaquin Phoenix
“Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor it is the sign that he wants all the truth.”
-- Mark Van Doren