Humor Quotes

“I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.”

-- Josh Gad

“The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.”

-- Jason Alexander

“People who know me know I have a sense of humor that can really push the envelope.”

-- Carmen Electra

“I can't not put humor in a book.”

-- Albert Brooks

“Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles.”

-- Colin Quinn

“G.I. humor is similar to cop humor.”

-- Nelson DeMille

“In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.”

-- George Herbert

“I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home.”

-- Cathy Guisewite

“It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.”

-- Max Eastman

“It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.”

-- David Herbert Lawrence