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Quotes About Humor

Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!
~ Anais Nin
Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.
~ Andre Breton
Acum am înÅ£eles cum te poÅ£i distra la recepÅ£iile mondene: observînd cît de ridicoli sunt cei din jur.
~ Andre Gide
Ann Coulter is living proof that you can't make a silk purse out of a horse's ass
~ Andrew Breitbart
if you're using an exponential algorithm O(2n), you might want to make a cup of coffee—your routine should finish in about 10263 years. Let us know how the universe ends.
~ Andrew Hunt
I've got a theory. Now, hear me out. It's that our lives are half comedy and half tragedy. And for some people, it just works out that the first entire half of their lives is tragedy and then the second half is comedy.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
But it is a rule of life, alas, that nobody is kidding.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
but can one "get" an edge any more than one can "get" a sense of humor? Or do you fake it, the way a humorless businessman memorizes jokes and is considered "a riot," leaving parties before he runs out of material?
~ Andrew Sean Greer
but I think you water your wine; the wonder of life is in its small absurdities, so easily overlooked.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Nothing to do but laugh about it. True for everything.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
The artists found out long ago that the way to combat a government that presents lies as if they were the truth is to tell the truth as if it were a joke. Humor became a means of encoded communication, and so long as they made jokes they could be vocal and invulnerable.
~ Andrew Solomon
Woody Allen once quipped that dwarf is once of the four funniest words in the English language. To be in your very essence perceived as comical is a significant burden.
~ Andrew Solomon
Dirty nappies.
~ Andy Griffiths
An artist's impression of what it would look like if Mr Big Nose's nose exploded.
~ Andy Griffiths
Hey, I know,' says Terry. 'Why don't
~ Andy Griffiths
Andy Griffiths
~ water!' says
THE 13-STOREY MONKEY HOUSE
~ Andy Griffiths
ABOVE: An artist's impression of what it would look like if Mr Big Nose's nose exploded.
~ Andy Griffiths
Okay," I said, "then I'm sorry to inform you that I'm going to have to whack you over the head with this giant banana." "Not if I can whack you first!" said Terry, snatching the banana from my hands and whacking me over the head with it. That's when everything went black.
~ Andy Griffiths
BARKY THE BARKING DOG SHOW
~ Andy Griffiths
Boy germs. Actually, no. That's just a joke. (Shocking fact #2: Not only are boy germs completely harmless, they have been scientifically proven—by me and my best friend, Danny—to be GOOD for you.)
~ Andy Griffiths
i fight with love and i laugh with rage....you gotta live light enough to see the humor, and long enough to see some change...
~ Ani DiFranco
We are made to bleed and scab and heal and bleed again and turn every scar into a joke. We are made to fight and fuck and talk and fight again and sit around and laugh until we choke.
~ Ani DiFranco
Are pants really that important?" Laura said. She said it sarcastically because she was afraid of her tears.
~ Ann Bannon