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Quotes About Humor

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.
~ James G. Frazer
Yes, men are pigs. Except your brother, of course. He's actually a decent human being. Almost a woman. -Jillian's mother
~ Gena Showalter
As I examine my life through this book, I can't help but wonder if my mother was right. Maybe I really was what I ate. And maybe if she'd let me eat a little more sugar, I'd have come out sweeter.
~ Jen Lancaster
So why in the name of Merlin's saggy left —" "Don't talk to your mother like that.
~ J. K. Rowling
I love in Notting Hill. You live in Beverly Hills. Everyone in the world knows who you are. My mother has trouble remembering my name.
~ Hugh Grant
Actually, the reason I look like this is because my father was from Sweden and my mother was Elton John.
~ Jim Gaffigan
Any man that has had a mother, has a sister, wants to be a father will find this [movie Bad Moms] incredibly eye opening and hysterical and funny.
~ Mila Kunis
I've never hit a woman in my life. Not even my own mother.
~ W. C. Fields
People often ask me when there's going to be a Mrs. Zach Braff. It's a confusing question sometimes because many people don't realize that my mother is named Mrs. Zach Braff.
~ Zach Braff
Captain Hook's mother, who said to Little Hook, For God sakes, don't scratch it! Never got a dinner!
~ Red Buttons
Mother Goose is on the loose, stealing lines from Lenny Bruce.
~ Phil Ochs
Can't this thing go any faster?" Thalia demanded. Zoe glared at her. "I cannot control traffic." You both sound like my mother," I said. Shut up!" they both said in union.
~ Rick Riordan
My mother wasn?t sleeping with anybody. She doesn?t even sleep with my father.
~ Richelle Mead
He had even read Pride and Prejudice--although he had thought that many of the heroine's problems would have been solved if someone had simply strangled her mother.
~ Lynn Viehl
I rang my mother to thank her for giving birth to me and she said, "What choice had I? You were in there, how else were you going to get out?
~ Marian Keyes
My mother's greatest joy in life was to make people laugh.
~ Melissa Rivers
On Valentine's Day, I wired flowers for my mother-in-law, but she found the fuse.
~ Milton Berle
I bought an ideal gift for my mother-in-law - a battery-operated mouth.
~ Milton Berle
My mother made us eat all sorts of vitamins and supplements, until one day I nearly choked on part of The Sunday Times.
~ Milton Jones
Anything that makes your mother cry is fun
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Mothers don't want to pinch me or put me in their purse.
~ Paul Lynde
I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name and apparently that's the key to the whole thing right there. I go in every few weeks and guess.
~ Paula Poundstone
I can still hear my mother wailing over some new kitchen crisis, "Oh God," and my father answering cozily from the silo, "Were you calling me, dear?
~ Peter De Vries
My mother hated me. Once she took me to an orphanage and told me to mingle
~ Phyllis Diller