Quotes on “humor”

Westley: This is true love — you think this happens every day?

Buttercup's mother whirled on him. 'Did you forget to pay your taxes?' (This was after taxes. But everything is after taxes. Taxes were here even before stew.)

Inconceivable! You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

We’ll never survive! Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.

Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.

It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.

We spend money that we do not have, on things we do not need, to impress people who do not care.

I never met a man that I didn't like.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.

Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.

The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary.

Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up? All the time.

What I'm expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.