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Quotes About Humor

Gotta have my make up, in case I run into Joey and he wants to beat the shit out of me. Gotta look my best! Maybe he'll punch me repeatedly in the kidneys and the stomach so it doesn't mark up my face. He's so thoughtful!
~ George Carlin
Never approach a crying woman entering a sports bar carrying a harpoon gun.
~ George Carlin
The best thing about living at the beach is that you only have assholes on three sides of you.
~ George Carlin
Unbelievably, a goldfish can kill a gorilla. However, it does require a substantial element of surprise.
~ George Carlin
We're all fucked. It helps to remember that.
~ George Carlin
Whenever I hear about parents who have nine or ten children, the only thing I wonder is how they survive the birthday parties.
~ George Carlin
In some company it's perfectly all right to prick your finger, but very bad form to finger your prick.
~ George Carlin
Do you know why it is that when a rancher fucks a sheep he does it at the edge of a cliff? It's so the sheep will push back.
~ George Carlin
I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.
~ George Carlin
Why don't the men have "Take Our Sons to the Cat-House Night"?
~ George Carlin
I recently heard the following sentence on CNN: 'Because of high winds, about two hundred and fifty thousand people in New England are without power.' And I thought 'gee, when you think about it, about two hundred and seventy five million people in the United States are without power. They just aren't aware of it.
~ George Carlin
We're all f***ed, it helps to remember that.
~ George Carlin
In Baltimore it's 6:42!
~ George Carlin
People who see life as anything more than pure entertainment are missing the point.
~ George Carlin
Today, I want to tell you about little Danny Pendejo.
~ George Carlin
The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.
~ George Eliot
I am not quite sure whether clever men ever dance.
~ George Eliot
I know the way o' wives; they set one on to abuse their husbands, and then they turn round on one and praise 'em as if they wanted to sell 'em.
~ George Eliot
What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle?
~ George Eliot
Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personæ folded in her hand.
~ George Eliot
she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that men would be so, and viewing the stronger sex in the light of animals whom it had pleased Heaven to make naturally troublesome, like bulls and turkey-cocks.
~ George Eliot
Oh, you dear good father! cried Mary, putting her hands round her father´s neck, while he bent his head placidly, willing to be caressed. I wonder if any other girl thinks her father the best man in the world. Nonsense, child; you´ll think your husband better. Impossible, said Mary, relapsing into her usual tone, husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.
~ George Eliot
Impossible, said Mary, relapsing into her usual tone; husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.
~ George Eliot
Happily she never attempted to joke, and this perhaps was the most decisive mark of her cleverness
~ George Eliot