Human condition Quote by Eileen Brennan

People who are mean or unkind or rigid - think about it - cannot laugh at themselves.

— Eileen Brennan

If we can't laugh at ourselves and the human condition, we're going to be mean.

— Eileen Brennan

“It's so difficult to be a mean person when u were born to make people laugh......... when people are mean towards u and it's…

— peekey

If you can't laugh at yourself, then how can you laugh at anybody else? I think people see the human side of you when…

— Payne Stewart

I find it incredibly boring when people are mean about some individuals, especially if the individual has no power. I can understand how someone…

— Dylan Moran

I always tried not to be too mean, but my problem is that the people I tend to find hilarious don't usually have senses…

— Ana Gasteyer

People who take themselves too seriously, who can't see anything else, are usually funny.

— Christopher Guest

People who laugh so heartily at what they themselves have said, when it is not funny, dispense us accordingly, by taking upon themselves the…

— Marcel Proust

Once you realize you can make people laugh, it's a superpower. When you're really young, you don't know how to use that power, so…

— Nick Swardson

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

What people will - or will not - laugh at is mainly determined by their social conditioning.

— Steve Allen

Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.

— Michel de Montaigne