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Quotes About Humor

The sign on the bar said: 'girls- topless, bottomless', I went inside and there was nobody there!
~ Rodney Dangerfield
A lot of people like cats. Take the Pope, for example: I read recently that he was a cat-oholic!
~ Milton Jones
I saw a commercial for the maxi pads for the bigger gals they're making now. That was a nice visual while I was eating.
~ Adam Carolla
Went to the corner shop - bought 4 corners.
~ Tommy Cooper
Never accept a drink from a urologist.
~ Erma Bombeck
So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'
~ Tommy Cooper
Martin Luther King was a human being with a brilliant mind, a powerful heart, and insight, and courage and also with a sense of humor. So he was accessible.
~ Maya Angelou
Everyone was laughin'. Even that deaf mute boy was breathing heavy and pointing at me. Which is laughter to their kind.
~ Dave Attell
[W]ithout humour you cannot run a sweetie-shop, let alone a nation.
~ John Buchan
A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella.
~ David Nicholls
Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting.
~ Washington Irving
The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.
~ John Cleese
Sin endeavors to subject the blessed God to the humor and lust of every person in the world
~ Stephen Charnock
Humor is anger that was sent to finishing school.
~ Richard Peck
If your working television sits on top of your non-working television, you might be a redneck.
~ Jeff Foxworthy
God probably thinks it's worth giving a sense of humor only to those of us who have to laugh at all the rubbish bits that are wrong with us.
~ Allison Pearson
I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor.
~ Paul Newman
READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and humor in slang.
~ Ambrose Bierce
When will all the rhetorical questions end?
~ George Carlin
Last week my tie caught on fire, some guy tried to put it out with an axe.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
I've always been attracted to humor and funny people in general. It's a joy to make people laugh, but it's not as fun as laughing yourself.
~ Jennifer Garner
You have a ready wit. Tell me when it's ready.
~ Henny Youngman
Jewish introspection and Jewish humor is a way of surviving . . . if you're not handsome and you're not athletic and you're not rich, there's still one last hope with girls, which is being funny.
~ Mike Nichols
I got a business card because I wanna win some lunches. That's what my business card says: Mitch Hedberg, Potential Lunch Winner. Gimme a call, maybe we'll have lunch. If I'm lucky!
~ Mitch Hedberg