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Quotes About Humor

Call yourself unlucky only if you take up coffin-making and people stop dying.
~ Idries Shah
Definiciones de Mulla Do-Piaza Pobreza: el resultado del matrimonio.
~ Idries Shah
Superficially, most of the Nasrudin stories may be used as jokes. They are told and retold endlessly in the teahouses and the caravanserais, in the homes and on the radio waves, of Asia. But it is inherent in the Nasrudin story that it may be understood at any one of many depths. There is the joke, the moral — and the little extra which brings the consciousness of the potential mystic a little further on the way to realisation.
~ Idries Shah
Serious things cannot be understood without humorous things Nor opposites without opposites.
~ Idries Shah
Las cosas serias no se pueden entender sin las cosas humorísticas; ni los opuestos sin opuestos.
~ Idries Shah
Someone saw Nasrudin searching for something on the ground. 'What have you lost, Mulla?' he asked. 'My key,' said the Mulla. So they both went down on their knees and looked for it. After a time the other man asked: 'Where exactly did you drop it?' 'In my own house.' 'Then why are you looking here?' 'There is more light here than inside my own house.
~ Idries Shah
Beware of geeks bearing gifs.
~ Unknown
Laugh and grow strong
~ Ignatius of Loyola
What's red and green and goes 80 miles an hour? A frog in a blender.
~ Unknown
Mike went fishing one day, but at the end he had not caught a single fish. On the way back home, he stopped at a fish store. "I want to buy three trout, please," he said to the owner. "But instead of putting them in a bag, can you throw them to me?" "Throw them? Why do you want me to do that?" the owner asked. Mike replied, "So I can tell everyone that I caught three fish!
~ Unknown
TEACHER: Kevin, how do you spell crocodile? KEVIN: K-R-O-K-O-D-I-A-L. TEACHER: No, I'm sorry, that's wrong. KEVIN: It can't be. You asked me how I spell it!
~ Unknown
Did you hear about the underwear that lost its job? It was bummed.
~ Unknown
What's the strongest insect in the world? A snail. It carries its house on its back!
~ Unknown
GEOGRAPHY TEACHER: What state would you find Lincoln in? STUDENT: A state of extreme boredom, if he was in this class.
~ Unknown
What's green and blue and yellow and black? A burnt peacock.
~ Unknown
Sherlock Holmes and his trusty associate Watson were on a camping trip. They had gone to bed and were lying there looking up at the sky. Holmes said, "Watson, look up and tell me what you see." "Well, I see thousands of stars," he replied. "And what does that tell you?" asked Holmes. "I guess it means we're going to have another nice day tomorrow. What does it mean to you?" "To me, it means that someone has stolen our tent.
~ Unknown
dad goes into a pet store and asks if he can return the puppy he got for his son. The owner replies, "I'm sorry, sir, but we've already sold your son to someone else.
~ Unknown
Tom, you couldn't punch the froth off a Guinness.
~ Colin Falconer
and may your stalk turn into a chicken and eat your testicles a peck at a time!
~ Colin Falconer
We want to be funny. We want to make people laugh... We'll do whatever it takes.
~ Colin Mochrie
Marie Antoinette was funny, I'm sure she was just misinterpreted. You know the 'Let them eat cake' line. She seems like she was kind of funny, like a Chelsea Handler or Kathy Griffin type.
~ Colin Quinn
Everybody's funny in different ways.
~ Colin Quinn
The only people who like to live alone more than comics are priests.
~ Colin Quinn
You can't make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody.
~ Colin Quinn