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Quotes About Humor

His finest hour lasted a minute and a half.
~ Phyllis Diller
I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.
~ W. C. Fields
Funny women are honest women.
~ Elizabeth Meriwether
I learned quickly that when I made others laugh, they liked me.
~ Art Buchwald
I think the world of you...and you know what condition the world is in today.
~ Henny Youngman
The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?
~ Carol Burnett
In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people.
~ Groucho Marx
Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.
~ Vaclav Havel
We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?
~ Betty White
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.
~ Clifton Fadiman
Some people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too big.
~ George Carlin
It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very small snack foods.
~ Geraldine Ferraro
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
~ Mel Brooks
My photographs don't do me justice - they just look like me.
~ Phyllis Diller
When I go to the beach, even the tide won't come in.
~ Phyllis Diller
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?
~ Phyllis Diller
My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
I've always dreamed of growing up to be Amy Poehler.
~ Amy Poehler
Being a Dad is the greatest, except for assembling things.
~ Conan O'Brien
A good time for laughing is when you can.
~ Jessamyn West
Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
~ Phyllis Diller
I'm the only woman who can walk in Central Park at night... and reduce the crime rate.
~ Phyllis Diller
I asked my hairdresser what would look good on me. She says a Los Angeles Rams football helmet.
~ Phyllis Diller