#humor

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost. ↗

— James Thurber

#cost #earliest #greatest #i #like

To the champ, everything is serious business. I'm hoping that he'll live long enough to learn that in this world that is a very dangerous attitude. ↗

— Stephen King

#kids #attitude

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast. ↗

— Colin Firth

#biggest #coast #east #east coast #exceptions

- So my own sister will not promote me? Speaking of which, weren't you supposed to find me a beautiful future wife with a small fortune? Have you had any success on that front? - Yes - I have warned them all. ↗

— Libba Bray

#siblings #beauty

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors. ↗

— Bill Forsyth

#cope #dark #human #human race #humor

With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#drive #humor #ideal #reader #subjective

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#generate #humor #impossible #irony #little

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#had #here #humor #i #job

If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is NOT for you. (BUMPER STICKER) ↗