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A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldn't take their formula and bring what I had, my humor, my ideas, and make it my own.

It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I'm still looking for that.

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.

The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.

I am a great believer that what makes our show different is the humor.

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.

The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.

While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.

If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.

I don't have a very quick sense of humor.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.

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.