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Quotes About Humor

The heaviness of loss in her heart hadn't eased, but there was room there for humour, too.
~ Nalo Hopkinson
Maybe in Sue Cox's case they shouldn't be called laugh lines, Bena thought. Not in Bena's own case either. Who was it that thought women got wrinkles from laughing so much?
~ Unknown
I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.
~ Nancy Astor
I'm cool enough to have moved from iceberg lettuce to romaine. I wasn't cool enough for field greens, which I kind of think might be weeds that some chef somewhere is having a huge belly laugh over—sort of like the Emperor's new clothes.
~ Unknown
The Good Humor man can only be pushed so far.
~ Nancy Cartwright
Once, it was so damned dry, the bushes followed the dogs around.
~ Unknown
I am very thankful that man took one look at me showing with a baby coming along, with my hair falling down, and the broom lying at a mound of broken glass, and supper boiling over on the stove, April wearing a dirty pinafore screaming for me to hold her, and just then the baby in my arms spit up all over me, and he said, You know . . .I'd be kindly obliged if you'd let me have supper some other time.
~ Unknown
Taking up marriage is a good excuse for taking up cursing, I think.
~ Nancy E. Turner
Reía como si yo acabara de decir algo increíblemente inteligente que la hacía burbujear de alegría.
~ Nancy Garden
Ugh! Young girls, they should laugh. Life's bad enough when you're grown, you might as well laugh when you're young.
~ Nancy Garden
Parody was one way Americans safely digested their class politics.
~ Unknown
Comedian Marty Feldman adds, "The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.
~ Unknown
How to do you know Jesus was Jewish? He was thirty, still living at home, and went into his father's business. Naturally, his mother believed her son was God.
~ Unknown
It was funny in a way, but only in the unhumorous way anything recent was funny. In another 80 years, maybe she would find it hilarious.
~ Nancy Kress
I saw your intelligence, and I was intrigued. I saw your humor, and I was charmed. I saw your soul, and it was beautiful. I'm in love with you, Mary Bennet.
~ Unknown
My bald pate bobs and blunders, I bang it when I fall; My cock's gone soft and clammy And I can't hear when they call.
~ Unknown
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
~ Nancy Mitford
The worst of being a Communist is the parties you may go to are - well - awfully funny and touching but not very gay...I don't see the point of sad parties, do you? And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.
~ Nancy Mitford
Oh! How like a woman," Davey said. "Sex, my dear Sadie, is not a sovereign cure for everything, you know. I only wish it were.
~ Nancy Mitford
I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour.
~ Nancy Springer
what's life without a spice of stupidity
~ Nancy Springer
If you believe in telekinesis, please raise my hand.
~ Nancy Thayer
AutoCorrect can go duck itself.
~ Nancy Thayer
She lifted her head, looked at me, and burped.
~ Nancy Warren