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Quotes About Humor

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
~ Ivan Turgenev
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
~ Dave Barry
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
~ Agnes Repplier
I want them to play Britney Spears at my funeral. This way I won't feel so bad about being dead, and everyone there will know there is something worse than Death.
~ Gary Numan
Don't take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.
~ Bruce Springsteen
What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
~ Steven Wright
One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.
~ Oscar Wilde
I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.
~ Emma Thompson
Death laughs when old women frolic.
~ Publilius Syrus
I bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately. Then there will be at least one man to regret my death.
~ Heinrich Heine
Fifty per cent of all marriages end in divorce. But look at the bright side: the other 50 per cent end in death.
~ Richard Jeni
If masturbation is a crime then I should be on death row.
~ Jeremy Piven
Amazing tradition. They throw a great party for you on the one day they know you can't come.
~ Jeff Goldblum
What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?
~ Freddie Mercury
Journalist: 'Have you received any death threats?' Harry Redknapp: 'Only from the wife when I didn't do the washing up!'.
~ Harry Redknapp
Death was Patrick Henry's second choice.
~ Wavy Gravy
I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old.
~ Warren Buffett
Here lies Matthew Mudd, Death did him no hurt; When alive he was only Mudd, But now he's only dirt.
~ Mel Blanc
Here lies William Trollope, Who made these stones roll up; When death took his soul up, His body filled this hole up
~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
I think beating someone to death with a ukulele would just sound funny.
~ Dane Cook
Studies find top 3 most stressful moments in people's lives: death, divorce, and properly pronouncing "Worcestershire sauce."
~ Tony Hsieh
Good news for senior citizens: Death is near!
~ George Carlin
We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.
~ Unknown
There's nothing funnier than getting a death threat via MySpace. Why don't you just write it in a children's birthday card.
~ Doug Stanhope