Famous Quotes

"I used to watch 'The Waltons' and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family."

Paula Poundstone on Humor

More quotes about Humor

• "A joke is a very serious thing."

  Winston Churchill on Humor

• "Humor is mankind's greatest blessing."

  Mark Twain on Humor

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

  William James on Humor

• "If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Humor

• "A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road."

  Henry Ward Beecher on Humor

More quotes by Paula Poundstone

• "The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling."

• "I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name."

• "I'm thankful for the three ounce Ziploc bag, so that I have somewhere to put my savings."

• "I have a very silly sense of humor. I've never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the bottom of their shoe."

• "My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'"