Quotes about humor

He is one of those men who, on marrying, assume that they have at last got a person to do a duty which has always hitherto been neglected.

As for offending him, you might as well swear at a tree, and think to offend it.

A drunkard or a gambler may be weaned from his ways, but not a politician.

In former days the Earl had been a man quite capable of making himself disagreeable, and probably had not yet lost the power of doing so. Of all our capabilities this is the one which clings longest to us.

As the outsider, you can retreat into a shell, be anonymous, be invisible. Or you can go the other way. You protect yourself by opening up. You don't ask to be accepted for everything you are, just the one part of yourself that you're willing to share. For me it was humor. I learned that even though I didn't belong to one group, I could be a part of any group that was laughing.

I had a thought. That happens. So do lunar eclipses.

“I know what I’m doing.”

You usually think you do. Occasionally you are correct.

You get paranoid in this business. But maybe paranoids get that way because of all the people out to get them.

The only thing that comes easy is trouble.

And I love what money does to you humans. It’s the only thing that saves you from being totally tedious.

Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.

Freud was, after all, a genius. You can tell that because people still hate him.