Johann Georg Zimmermann Quotes

The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.

Henry Kissinger is possessed of a truly superior intelligence, in addition to which he has two qualities which, unfortunately, many great men lack: he is able to listen and he has a very subtle sense of humor.

I do not deny that what happened to us is a thing worth laughing at. But it is not worth telling, for not everyone is sufficiently intelligent to be able to see things from the right point of view.

Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.

I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth.

His jest will savour but of shallow wit, When thousands weep, more than did laugh at it.

Knowing comedy is knowing human nature.

The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.

True wit never made us laugh.

The kind of über-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, "Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny."

When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding. -Aunt Jimsie

Everyone is a comedy. If people are laughing at you, they just don't quite understand the joke that is themselves.

I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.

Show me a person who doesn't like to laugh and I'll show you a person with a toe tag.

I think laughter is the best medicine. If you can't laugh at yourself, then you can't laugh at life and the silliness of it all.

Comedy is such a personal thing. Everybody can cry at the same thing, but it's a lot harder to get everyone to laugh at the same thing.

There's a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at.

I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.

I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times.

I'm such a comedy fan that I just love laughing and so admire comedians who have brought me joy.

I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.

I love comedy because I can laugh at myself. I don't take myself too seriously.

I love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.

I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?

My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.