Humor Quotes

“Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.”

-- Theodore Sturgeon

“But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.”

-- Marion Ross

“A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage.”

-- Chris Rock

“Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.”

-- Allen Klein

“Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.”

-- Allen Klein

“Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.”

-- Lara Flynn Boyle

“I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He's got such a wicked sense of humor.”

-- Moby

“With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.”

-- Calvin Trillin

“One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.”

-- Larry Gelbart

“It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?”

-- Dan Simmons