logo

Quotes About Humor

El hecho de que las medusas hayan sobrevivido seiscientos cincuenta años sin cerebro, es una gran noticia para algunos varones, incluyendo a tu novio. —¡Ay! No seas tan malo.
~ Dante Gebel
I recalled a theory my father had concocted one night, while we sat in an Oakland juke joint sharing a plate of ribs. He'd said humor, above all else, was what bound each of us and separated each of us from one another. Humor was the great moment of truth. What we thought was funny was how we defined ourselves, and revealed ourselves, whether we knew it or not.
~ Danzy Senna
The hardest part about doing Spaceballs (1987) was not laughing when they said "action".
~ Daphne Zuniga
Sometimes life sends us lessons in ridiculous packaging.
~ Dar Williams
La satira è l'arma più efficace contro il potere: il potere non sopporta l'umore, nemmeno i governanti cosiddetti democratici, perché ridere libera l'uomo dalle sue paure.
~ Dario Fo
What does an educated owl say?" He shrugged. "Whom," she said.
~ Darlene Gardner
As Henry G. Felsen, a humorist and no medical authority, pointed out quite a while ago, proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself a cold will hang on for a week.
~ Darrell Huff
Maybe you're going insane." "Maybe," agreed Kernel. "I was joking." "I wasn't.
~ Darren Shan
There's something different about you," he says. "I've started styling my hair differently," I laugh. "Oh. I thought it was that you were three feet taller, a hell of a lot broader, look like a werewolf, and are naked expect for that bit of cloth around your waist. But you're right - it's the hair.
~ Darren Shan
My mom always says, "Keep your chin up." That's how I ran into the door.
~ Daryl Hogue
Never knock on death's door. Ring the doorbell then run. He totally hates that. - T-shirt
~ Darynda Jones
Nora: "How do you feel?" Nick: "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober.
~ Dashiell Hammett
I haven't laughed so much over anything since the hogs ate my kid brother.
~ Dashiell Hammett
That was the thing about restorative justice. It allowed you to hold two things in your head at the same time--that butt-slapping was funny, and also that it wasn't. That asking permission to touch somebody was funny, but that you really didn't want to be touched by somebody who didn't ask. That the girls wanted Jeff to dial back the ass-smacking thing, but that they still liked joking around with him. That the whole thing wasn't a big deal, and that it kind of was (239).
~ Dashka Slater
George and Harold were usually responsible kids. Whenever anything bad happened, George and Harold were usually responsible.
~ Dav Pilkey
Have you read your UNDERPANTS today?
~ Dav Pilkey
Only one thing can help us now," said George. "What?" asked Harold. "Rubber doggy doo-doo," said George.
~ Dav Pilkey
I dream of a world where chickens can cross the road without having their motives questioned.
~ Dave
For a long time the people at my shows were sort of the Pantera-tattoo trucker guys, really cool dudes, but I don't know what happened to them. That's the crowd that I like, the ones that don't get so offended just to be offended.
~ Dave Attell
I'm not a movie guy, I'm not a TV sitcom guy, but whatever seems to fit and is funny is good for me.
~ Dave Attell
Albert Einstein, who discovered that a tiny amount of mass is equal to a huge amount of energy, which explains why, as Einstein himself so eloquently put it in a famous 1939 speech to the Physics Department at Princeton, "You have to exercise for a week to work off the thigh fat from a single Snickers."
~ Dave Barry
Congress shall also create a tax code weighing more than the combined poundage of the largest member of the House and the largest member of the Senate, plus a standard musk ox.
~ Dave Barry
It's income tax time again, Americans: time to gather up those receipts, get out those tax forms, sharpen up that pencil, and stab yourself in the aorta.
~ Dave Barry
If, when you appear at the breakfast table, your wife laughs to hard that she spits out her toast, you should consider wearing a different tie.
~ Dave Barry