Quotes about humor

He was a professional trouble-shooter. That was a fancy name for an idiot.

Trouble comes in a thousand different ways. Not usually anything you expect, either. That’s why it’s trouble.

That’s why we want it. Impossible gadgets are always the most valuable.

“We’re all here,” said Louis Nenda’s voice.

“Where’s here? Can you see?”

“Not a thing. Black as a politician’s heart.”

That’s what logic says. But I say, phooey, who wants logic? Not you, and not me. We want results.

What does one do when a madman suggests an appealing course of action? One worries—but probably goes along with it.

A long time ago humans talked of terraforming Mars and Venus, but we never did it. Just too busy blowing ourselves up, I guess, ever to get round to it.

You can learn more about a person by watching them eat one meal than by listening to them speak for a whole day.

“I think I’ll have a sign made for that far wall,” said Bey at last.

“Indeed?”

“Yes. It will say, ‘If you have nothing to do, please don’t do it here’.”

That’s the trouble with the younger generation. They don’t understand why a thing can’t be done, so they go ahead and do it.

The first ten-thousandth of a second after the Big Bang is far more interesting that the entire rest of the history of the universe.

Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat denial of the gospel of grace. Our approach to the Christian life is as absurd as the enthusiastic young man who had just received his plumber’s license and was taken to see Niagara Falls. He studied it for a minute and then said, "I think I can fix this."