Humor Quotes
“The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess so. I guess some do political humor, some do topical humor, but the ones that I like, the ones that are appealing to me, were guys who were just talking to you about their life.”
“I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.”
-- Shelley Berman
“A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.”
-- Samuel Butler
“Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.”
-- J. G. Ballard
“Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop.”
-- Allen Klein
“I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.”
-- Horatio Nelson