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Quotes About Humor

Some things are so completely ludicrous that a man must laugh or die. To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
~ Edgar Allen Poe
This goes in the Turd cutter
~ Edgar Antillon
The entity should attempt, - seriously, prayerfully, spiritually, - to see even that as might be called the ridiculous side of every question, - the humor in same. Remember that a good laugh, an arousing even to what might in some be called hilariousness, is good for the body, physically, mentally, and gives the opportunity for greater mental and spiritual awakening.
~ Edgar Cayce
It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.
~ Edgar Rice Burroghs
You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue -- agree with him.
~ Edgar Watson Howe
Out of the corner of my eye, I could see Zane doubled over in his chair, still laughing hysterically. If he wasn't already dead, I would have killed him.
~ Edie Claire
The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances on any subject cross like interarching searchlights.
~ Edith Wharton
Soames, for example, who suddenly broke away after twenty years' teaching and went off to be jokes editor to a firm of matchbox manufacturers.
~ Edmund Crispin
As if toughening himself for the crisis to come, Roosevelt intensified his latest exercise routine, "singlesticks." Every evening in the residence, he and Leonard Wood donned padded helmets and chest protectors and beat each other like carpets. "We look like Tweedledum and Tweedle dee," the President joked.
~ Edmund Morris
Just think of dick as pussy on a stick.
~ Edmund White
The leading lady had a large and saving sense of humor. But there is nothing that blunts the sense of humor more quickly than a few months of one-night stands. Even O. Henry could have seen nothing funny about that room.
~ Edna Ferber
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. (in a letter written while she was in college)
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Todas las calaveras tienen una cara de risa que no viene a cuento
~ Eduardo Mendoza
Ik weet niet wat een concubine is en ook niet wat je ermee in bad kunt doen. Ik dacht dat het een spons was.
~ Eduardo Mendoza
Es muy probable que le gusten las flores y los animales domésticos. Podría enviarle una rosa y dos docenas de dobermans.
~ Eduardo Mendoza
No hay en todo el Universo chapuza más grande ni trasto peor hecho que el cuerpo humano. Sólo las orejas, pegadas al cráneo de cualquier modo, ya bastarían para descalificarlo. Los pies son ridículos; las tripas, asquerosas. Todas las calaveras tienen una cara de risa que no viene a cuento. De todo ello los seres humanos sólo son culpables hasta cierto punto. La verdad es que tuvieron mala suerte con la evolución.
~ Eduardo Mendoza
Primer acto, un francés tira un balde de yeso al mar. Segundo acto, un francés tira un balde de yeso al mar. Tercer acto, un francés tira un balde de yeso al mar. ¿Cómo se llama la obra? "La marsellesa".
~ Eduardo Sacheri
Si no fueran unos sanguinarios hijos de puta, serían para cagarse de la risa.
~ Eduardo Sacheri
Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.
~ Edward Abbey
My most memorable hikes can be classified as 'Shortcuts that Backfired'.
~ Edward Abbey
Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.
~ Edward Abbey
I've got a crooked elbow and I generally say my prayers with one leg on a brass rail.
~ Edward Abbey
People who think that love, sex, marriage, work, play, life and death are serious matters are urged NOT to read this book. Buy it, yes, but don't read it. [Regarding "The Fool's Progress"]
~ Edward Abbey