Quotes about humor

It is amazing how the young women flock about me now that I’m old and harmless. Where were they when I could have taken wicked advantage of their affection?

I shuddered at the thought of living in Florida, though, a place where six inches is a high elevation.

Arthur and I share similar views on science fiction, on science, on social questions, and on politics. I have never had occasion to disagree with him on any of these things, which is a credit to his clear-thinking intelligence.

Tritt listened placidly, clearly understanding nothing, but content to be listening; while Odeen, transmitting nothing, was as clearly content to be lecturing.

Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income.

“My field of specialization is the mathematical analysis of social structure.”

“Sounds horrible.”

It’s a dull world, full of farms and with lots of cattle, both four-legged and two-legged.

“That’s an amusing thought, if you’ll consider it.”

“Do you find everything amusing?”

“Why not? As an attitude toward life, it’s an amusing one. It’s the only adjective that will fit. Observe the universe, young man. If you can’t force amusement out of it, you might as well cut your throat, since there’s damn little good in it.”

This sounded promising, and my coefficient of cupidity jumped several points.

There may be a moral here. For the life of me I can't find it.

Now there are some forms of apparel that may be worn or discarded as the fancy pleases with no other ill effects than a possible loss of social prestige. But spacesuits are not among them.

He was suddenly struck by an idea so brilliant that he was quite sure it could not possibly work.