Thomas Hobbes Quotes

Humor is the good natured side of a truth.

I don't mind people thinking I'm stupid, but I don't want to give them any proof.

Rob and I both have this strange sense of comedy which always involves us being the butt of our own jokes.

I'm a sucker for a good sense of humor.

That's the thing about comedy, there's something utterly delightful and slightly pure about a really good joke, and to create one is a great pleasure.

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

These stories about my intellectual capacity really get under my skin. You know, for a while I even thought my staff believed it. There on my schedule first thing every morning it said, 'Intelligence Briefing.'

Sometimes WRONG is worth the FUNNY!

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.

One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward - and since I can start thinking and striving again that much sooner.

Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

What mortal is there of us, who would find his satisfaction enhanced by an opportunity of comparing the picture he presents to himself of his doings, with the picture they make on the mental retina of his neighbours? We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit.

I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.

Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.

The most important thing in comedy - apart from empathy, which I think is important even if disguised - is surprise. I like surprising people with the fact that something's even a joke at all.

I have a crazy sense of humor so if someone is just trying to be rude to me, or if you can tell that someone is angry for no reason, I like to entertain them.

The Three Kinds of Pride are: (1) thinking I am better than the other(s); (2) thinking I am worse than the other(s); and (3) thinking I am just as good as the other(s).

He sniggered. He didn't like to think of himself as the sort of person who giggled or sniggered, but he had to admit that he had been giggling and sniggering almost continuously for well over half an hour now.

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

Don't feel bad for me. I think I'm, like, so pretty.

Be funny whenever possible, even if some people don't get it.

If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.