Quotes Tagged "sense-of-humor"

If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions.

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

And I ask myself what it is about me that makes this wonderful, beautiful woman return. Is it because I'm pathetic, helpless in my current state, completely dependent on her? Or is it my sense of humour, my willingness to tease her, to joke my way into painful, secret places? Do I help her understand herself? Do I make her happy? Do I do something for her that her husband and son can't do? Has she fallen in love with me? As the days pass and I continue to heal, my body knitting itself back together, I begin to allow myself to think that she has.

Respect? Of course, always, to all, because everything seems funnier when you're trying to show respect.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

Senses of humor define people, as factions, deeper rooted than religious or political opinions. When carrying out everyday tasks, opinions are rather easy to set aside, but those whom a person shares a sense of humor with are his closest friends. They are always there to make the biggest influence.

We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts.

Studies have shown a woman looking for a 'sense of humour' wants a man who makes jokes and who likes to laugh. A man looking for the same quality in a woman does not expect her to be funny; rather, he wants her to laugh at his jokes.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

I was certainly not a class clown; I confused and angered a lot of people with my sense of humor.

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

I wasn't shy, but I was really hyper. Nobody got my sense of humor. I was a black skater kid.

I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.

I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.

Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of humor - they are too subtle to seem Spanish.

I've used my sense of humor as a coping tool. It's gotten me through a lot of challenging times.