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Quotes About Humor

A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One is not meant to laugh. One stays quiet and marvels. Spontaneously witty talk is without question the most fascinating entertainment there is.
~ Diana Vreeland
I hope your bacon burns.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Really, these wizards! You'd think no one had ever had a cold before! Well, what is it?" she asked, hobbling through the bedroom door onto the filthy carpet. "I'm dying of boredom," Howl said pathetically. "Or maybe just dying.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!
~ Diana Wynne Jones
It is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.
~ Diane Cilento
If women were in charge, all men's underwear would come with an expiration date.
~ Diane Ford
Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes it easier to swallow.
~ Diane Johnson
The Novelist, afraid his ideas may be foolish, slyly puts them in the mouth of some other fool and reserves the right to disavow them.
~ Diane Johnson
I couldn't tell a joke if my life depended on it.
~ Diane Keaton
Babies laugh three thousand times a day. Adults twenty, if we're lucky.
~ Diane Keaton
Babbage never foresaw the terrible consequences of his invention, a machine that would autocorrect his name to cabbage, every single time.
~ Diane Morgan
In a deep sexy voice, she said Windows don't turn me on. I raised an eyebrow at her, Mac user?
~ Diane Mott Davidson
He took great pleasure in teasing her; he'd decided that Bee was no name for a person, and that it must just be the first letter of her real name. So every time he came in, he addressed her by a new and awful name that started with B.
~ Diane Zahler
There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
~ Dick Cavett
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
~ Dick Clark
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law
~ Dick Clark
Last time I was down South, I walked into this restaurant. This White waitress came up to me and said, "We don't serve colored people here." I said, "That's all right, I don't eat colored people, no way! Bring me a whole fried chicken."
~ Dick Gregory
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
~ Dick Martin
Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.
~ Dick Van Dyke
Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If you look at a map, you will see that the country of Italy is shaped like a boot, and that the island of Sicily appears to be something that Italy is kicking. What do you think Sicily has done to annoy Italy?
~ Dino Buzzati
Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.
~ Diogenes