Humor Importance Quotes

I have to have people around who are of a certain strain of humour. I can't deal with people who have no humour.

Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age.

In Buddhism, they say attachment to anything only leads to suffering. So when we laugh, it's our way of saying, 'I'm unattached to that.' You're tickled by it, it makes your lobes do something on their own. So humor is very important to me. I always take that to the stage first.

And regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never thought of it that way. I've always thought it to be important. The last time I looked, the Greeks were holding up two masks. I've always thought of it not only as having equal value, but as the craft of it, being funny.

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

A better thing to grow up with is to be funny I think, and if I had, if I had my choice I would still pick that.

I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn't have to translate.

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

The only thing worth having in an earthly existence is a sense of humor.

If you let go of fart jokes, you've let go of a piece of humanity.

Sometimes I used to think to myself, 'Have I lost a sense of humor?' but I don't think that I have. I think one can be as snarky and sarcastic as lots of people, but I have never found that it makes me particularly happy.

I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.

I don't think a comedian should even be concerned with being cool or sexy, as soon as you do, you aren't a comedian any more. Looks are still the most important thing for women when it comes to meeting a partner. And that's fair enough, but a sense of humour is really important too. For starters, it's a great indicator of whether you are going to get on. If the first time you go on a date you don't find each other funny, there's a fundamental problem.

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

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.

It's true, of course, humor is very important in my life, as you know. That's the only reason for living, in fact.

Comedy has always been important in my family. If you got in a good joke at the dinner table, it meant more than almost anything else.

If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

Humor is important. If you're going to tell any sort of realistic story, you're going to have to have humor in it, because people are funny. Clever people especially.

We will take almost any kind of criticism except the observation that we have no sense of humor.

It's not all about beauty! It's also about a sense of humor.

Humor is about perspective, and hanging out with people who see life through a similar lens is so important.

I'm a Jewish son of Russian-Hungarian heritage parents. Humor was very important. My whole goal was to make my parents laugh. And my whole strategy as a young man was, if I could make them laugh, I could have enough time to figure out what to do next.

We do not take humor seriously enough.

We need to have a little humor in our lives. .If the time ever comes when we can't smile at ourselves, it will be a sad time.