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Quotes About Humor

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
~ Langston Hughes
I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.
~ Mark Twain
Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.
~ Erma Bombeck
Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It's darker, more cutting.
~ Stephan Pastis
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Be kind to dragons, for thou art crunchy when toasted and taste good with ketchup. (Sebastian)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dragonswan
What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
~ Salman Rushdie, Fury
Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.
~ Charles M. Schulz
A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge
I'm one of the more pessimistic cats on the planet. I make Van Gogh look like a rodeo clown.
~ Dennis Miller
Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I used to be an airline pilot. I got fired because I kept locking the keys in the plane. They caught me on an 80 foot stepladder with a coat hanger.
~ Steven Wright
Everyone's always interested in a dark theme, especially when there's humor connected to it. It seems like that helps, if that's an integral and organic part of the whole story.
~ Robert De Niro
Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.
~ Marty Feldman
Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly; but when they lit a fire in the craft, it sank, proving once and for all that you can't have your kayak and heat it too.
~ Tommy Cooper
When I heard Cristiano Ronaldo was pictured holding a manbag, I was surprised it was a gucci bag and not another guy's sack.
~ Frankie Boyle
I asked him "Who said you could fool around with my wife" he said everybody.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
How fatally the entire want of humor cripples the mind.
~ Alice James
I'm a bad lover. Once I caught a peeping tom booing me.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
I wish they made fajita cologne, because that stuff smells good. What's that you're wearing? That's sizzlin'!
~ Mitch Hedberg
There is nothing so debilitating to a naturally weak sense of humor as selling tickets behind a grating.
~ Kate Douglas Wiggin
I didn't lose my virginity until I was twenty-six. Nineteen vaginally, but twenty-six what my boyfriend calls "the real way".
~ Sarah Silverman
I have a few cavities. I don't like to call them cavities, though - I like to call them 'places to put stuff'. 'Do you know where I can store a pea' 'Yes, I have some locations available.'
~ Mitch Hedberg
My aunt gave me a walkie-talkie for my birthday. She says if I'm good, she'll give me the other one next year.
~ Steven Wright