Quotes about humor

You are a republic of voices tonight. Unfortunately, that republic is Italy.

Vermouth always makes me brilliant unless it makes me idiotic, but we'll hope for the best.

The hours of the morning between breakfast and lunch were the time which the inhabitants of Riseholme chiefly devoted to spying on each other

‘Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,

Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time—’

That’s the sort of thing she would have written before the rise of advertising. The correlation is perfectly clear. Advertising up, lyric poetry down.

There are three kinds of people—the living, the dead, and those at sea.

“Is this being in love?” he suddenly wondered? It was nothing like the ballads he had heard sung—this was more irritating than uplifting.

We trolls say: “Make Philosophy your evening guest, but do not let her stay the night.”

Parents might believe themselves to be the bosses, but in the end it was the kids who made the rules.

Finding a woman with a sense of humor had been the one piece of advice his father had given him when he'd first begun to get serious about dating, and he finally understood why his dad had considered it important. If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.

It went without saying that he felt guilty about what had happened, but married friends had assured him that guilt was the cornerstone of any good marriage. It meant that a conscience was at work, values were held in high esteem, and reasons to feel guilty were best avoided whenever possible.

Our stories are funny because we lived them, and we survived them. The worse the incident was when it was happening, the funnier the story had become to us over the years.

"Writing is easy. It's just the typing that's hard."