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Quotes About Humor

A woman drove me to drink, and I'll be a son-of-a-gun but I never even wrote to thank her.
~ W. C. Fields
How is the human race going to survive now that the cost of living has gone up two dollars a quart?
~ W. C. Fields
Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
~ W. C. Fields
Women are like elephants to me. I like to look at them, but I wouldn't want to own one.
~ W. C. Fields
Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia.
~ W. C. Fields
Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.
~ W. C. Fields
Start every day with a smile and get it over with.
~ W. C. Fields
Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
~ W. C. Fields
I like children - fried.
~ W. C. Fields
I never worry about being driven to drink I just worry about being driven home.
~ W. C. Fields
A woman drove me to drink and I never even had the courtesy to thank her.
~ W. C. Fields
Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one.
~ W. C. Fields
After two days in the hospital, I took a turn for the nurse.
~ W. C. Fields
I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake--which I also keep handy.
~ W. C. Fields
What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch?
~ W. C. Fields
If Falstaff had stuck to martinis, he'd be with us today.
~ W. C. Fields
Definition of a College professor: someone who talks in other people's sleep.
~ W. H. Auden
In those whom I like, I can find no common denominator; in those whom I love I can: they all make me laugh.
~ W. H. Auden
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
~ W. S. Merwin
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore, always carry a small snake.
~ W.C. Fields