Comedy Quote by Alice James Download Open image “How fatally the entire want of humor cripples the mind.” — Alice James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Comedy Cripples Cripples Mind Fatally Entire Humor Humor Cripples Mind Psychology Want Want Humor
Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity… — Diane Keaton Copy Share Image
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“Humor today goes hand in hand with our rationality, and not just rationality in the sense of cognitive sophistication, but also in the sense… — John Morreall Copy Share Image
“A sense of humor is a serious business; and it isn't funny, not having one. Watch the humorless closely: the cocked and furtive way… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The humor is the sort born of ironic necessity; they use it to salve the wounds in insensitity. — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable. — James Gray Copy Share Image
If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something. — Alan King Copy Share Image
I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more. — Alice James Copy Share Image
What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading. — Alice James Copy Share Image
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the… — Alice James Copy Share Image
If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able… — Alice James Copy Share Image
How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard. — Alice James Copy Share Image
“The paralytic on his couch can have if he wants them wider experiences than Stanley slaughtering the savages, the two roomed cottage may enclose… — Alice James Copy Share Image
The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer… — Alice James Copy Share Image
How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four… — Alice James Copy Share Image
When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty toTruth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children,… — Alice James Copy Share Image
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am. — Alice James Copy Share Image
It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble… — Alice James Copy Share Image
Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity. — Alice James Copy Share Image
'Mad TV' is one of my most favorite shows of all time and is a huge part of my obsession with sketch comedy. — Shane Dawson Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want people to laugh at me. That's why I have to give all that I can, and at least produce something that… — Zhao Wei Copy Share Image
“Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
That's something a lot of folks don't know about me - I'm pretty darn funny. — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
There's a difference between delivering real funny and just silly funny. — Lil Rel Howery Copy Share Image
Oh to that corkscrew, the useful tool to unlock the treasure of wit, the treasury of laughter, the front door of fellowship, and the… — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
