Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them. —Mel Brooks More about this quote Tags: humor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
About Mel Brooks Melvin James Brooks (né Kaminsky; born June 28, 1926) is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, songwriter, and playwright.
More quotations from Mel Brooks If you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living. —Mel Brooks More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Comedy is when you accidentally fall off a cliff and die. Tragedy is when I have a hangnail. —Mel Brooks More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you. —Mel Brooks More about this quote Tags: humor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets. —Mel Brooks More about this quote Tags: God humor flight Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Good taste is the enemy of comedy. —Mel Brooks More about this quote Tags: comedy taste Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living. —Mel Brooks More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Comedy is when you accidentally fall off a cliff and die. Tragedy is when I have a hangnail. —Mel Brooks More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you. —Mel Brooks More about this quote Tags: humor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets. —Mel Brooks More about this quote Tags: God humor flight Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Good taste is the enemy of comedy. —Mel Brooks More about this quote Tags: comedy taste Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “humor” One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you. —Mel Brooks More about this quote Tags: humor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The best defence against misguided arrogance is a keen sense of humour. —Mary Hirsch More about this quote Tags: humor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself. —Larry Gelbart More about this quote Tags: humor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face. —James Thurber More about this quote Tags: humor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email If you're at school and you're not that bright or good-looking or popular or whatever, and one day you say something and someone laughs, well, you sort of grab onto it, don't you? you think, well I run funny and I've got this stupid big face and big thighs and no-one fancies me, but at least I can make people laugh. And It's such a nice feeling, making someone laugh, that maybe you get a bit reliant on it. Like, if you're not funny then you're not... anything. —Dwight D. Eisenhower More about this quote Tags: humor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you. —Mel Brooks More about this quote Tags: humor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The best defence against misguided arrogance is a keen sense of humour. —Mary Hirsch More about this quote Tags: humor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself. —Larry Gelbart More about this quote Tags: humor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face. —James Thurber More about this quote Tags: humor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you're at school and you're not that bright or good-looking or popular or whatever, and one day you say something and someone laughs, well, you sort of grab onto it, don't you? you think, well I run funny and I've got this stupid big face and big thighs and no-one fancies me, but at least I can make people laugh. And It's such a nice feeling, making someone laugh, that maybe you get a bit reliant on it. Like, if you're not funny then you're not... anything. —Dwight D. Eisenhower More about this quote Tags: humor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email