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Quotes About Humor

Rondeau En chiant l'autre hier senti La gabelle qu'à mon cul dois; L'odeur fut autre que cuidois: J'en fus du tout empuanti O si quelqu'un eût consenti M'amener une qu'attendois En chiant! Car je lui eusse assimenti Son trou d'urine à mon lourdois; Cependant eût avec ses doigts, Mon trou de merde garanti, En chiant!
~ Francois Rabelais
Il vaut mieux écrire du rire que des larmes, Parce que le rire est le propre de l'homme. VIVEZ JOYEUX.
~ Francois Rabelais
Kiedy zapyta?am mojego przyjaciela jakie miejsce do zamieszkania uwa?a za najlepsze, odpowiedzia?: Nigdzie, ko?o gdzieb?dzia.
~ Frances Mayes
Elizabeth couldn't help thinking that if Winston got any redder, they'd have to paint a white line in front of him and use him as a stop sign.
~ Francine Pascal
She told me the French expression [Esprit de l'escalier]—the spirit of the staircase—for the voice that catches up with you, minutes after the fact, to make fun of whatever you said and come up with the perfect answer you didn't think of. We even had our own code phrase: SOS, we called it.
~ Francine Prose
He was never angry when she made mistakes. He complimented and encouraged her. He shared his own mishaps with a sense of humor that made her less annoyed with her own incompetence. He gave her hope that she could learn, and pride when she did.
~ Francine Rivers
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
~ Francis Bacon
Can you take him, Gurney?" "M'Lord jests!
~ Frank Herbert
If I can't laugh at myself I'm really lost
~ Frank Herbert
Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing.
~ Frank Herbert
We open windows, Bell, and let in common sense. Even hilarity. Puts more serious matters in perspective.
~ Frank Herbert
L'ironia spesso nasconde l'incapacità di andare oltre le proprie convinzioni.
~ Frank Herbert
We're like a damned old married couple. Funny stories in the middle of the night.
~ Frank Herbert
If ever you're getting a dog, Francis, make sure it's a Buddhist. Good-natured dogs, the Buddhists. Never, never get a Mahommedan. They'll eat you sleeping. Never a Catholic dog. They'll eat you every day including Fridays.
~ Frank McCourt
They can afford to smile because they all have teeth so dazzling if they dropped them in the snow they'd be lost forever.
~ Frank McCourt
Bridey drags on her Woodbine, drinks her tea and declares that God is good. Mam says she's sure God is good for someone somewhere but He hasn't been seen lately in the lanes of Limerick. Bridey laughs. Oh, Angela, you could go to hell for that, and Mam says, Aren't I there already, Bridey?
~ Frank McCourt
For once, mam, my bladder isn't near my eye and why isn't it?
~ Frank McCourt
Who threw the overalls in Mrs. Murphy's chowder? Nobody spoke so he said it all the louder It's a dirty Irish trick and I can lick the Mick Who threw the overalls in Murphy's chowder.
~ Frank McCourt
I have no notion of what he's talking about. I have to lie and say, I do. He says, You do know he was perhaps the greatest satirist in English literature. I thought he was Irish.
~ Frank McCourt
Sometimes I text the wrong person ... on purpose. Just to start a conversation.
~ Frank Warren
May your shit come to life and kiss you on the face.
~ Frank Zappa
I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?
~ Frank Zappa
Don't eat the yellow snow.
~ Frank Zappa
For the record, folks; I never took a shit on stage and the closest I ever came to eating shit anywhere was at a Holiday Inn buffet in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in 1973.
~ Frank Zappa