#humor

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#finest #genius #humor #justly #perfection

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#deeper #essence #far #head #heart

I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire. ↗

— David Zucker

#early #humor #i #i think #most

I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor. ↗

— Dana Carvey

#country #cross #cross country #friends #go

(pg.31) "As it was, my first days on Earth were somewhat anticlimactic. Mother and Father seemed so happy tempting and corrupting that I didn't want to interrupt them. But the fact was that I hadn't the slightest clue what to do with myself. I tried to convince cows to take over the world, to rampage across the fields slaughtering all in their wake, to start a new religion of udder worship, to build cities devoted to the consumption of grass, their aqueducts running with fresh milk. I even prepared a pictorial presentation of cows traveling into outer space aboard butter-powered space churns, but the cows seemed unconvinced, and soon returned to wondering how many stomachs they had. The current belief was seventeen. Cows:Unambitious. ↗

— George Pendle

#death

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#benefit #brag #draw #expressing #him

I think it's because it's so different and it takes risks. Plus, it's really smart humor. It gives the audience credit in terms of not needing to tell them when to laugh. I love that about the show. There's no laugh track. ↗

— Sarah Chalke

#audience #because #credit #different #gives

By educating me at home, my parents were able to give me individualized attention without the usual distractions that kids in regular school experience, like dating and friendship. Not to mention that traditional school can be dangerous. I’ve heard about kids catching the flu and chicken pox, even Judaism. And how about those poor kids lugging all those heavy books to and from school every day? My books never went anywhere, just like me. I felt so bad when I’d see kids on my street giggling and chasing each other around with those awkward backpacks. ↗

— Colin Nissan

#homeschooling #humor #satire #dating

It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#face #good #humor #laugh #life

I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor. ↗

— Patricia Clarkson

#distance #go #hard #humor #i