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Quotes About Humor

I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.
~ Emo Philips
I was walking through the park. I had a very bad asthmatic attack. These three asthmatics attacked me. I know . . . I should have heard them hiding.
~ Emo Philips
I was at a bar nursing a beer. My nipple was getting quite soggy.
~ Emo Philips
I got some new underwear the other day. Well, new to me.
~ Emo Philips
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kickboxing.
~ Emo Philips
How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand.
~ Emo Philips
Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something.
~ Emo Philips
He taught me never to smile, which helps me when I visit disaster sites.
~ Emo Philips
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
~ Emo Philips
I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.
~ Emo Philips
My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.
~ Emo Philips
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
~ Emo Phillips
People come up to me and say, "Emo, do people really come up to you?"
~ Emo Phillips
Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.
~ Emo Phillips
What do you suppose? A bee sat on my nose. Then what do you think? He gave me a wink And said, "I beg your pardon, I thought you were the garden."
~ English proverb
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
~ English proverb
A clown needn't be the same out of the ring as he has to be when he's in it. If you look at photographs of clowns when they're just being ordinary men, they've got quite sad faces.
~ Enid Blyton
Hay mujeres tan lindas que no se explica cómo no se desmayan al mirarse al espejo
~ Enrique Jardiel Poncela
Echad de vuestra alcoba al médico si queréis morir de muerte natural
~ Enrique Jardiel Poncela
El hombre que se ríe de todo es que todo lo desprecia. La mujer que se ríe de todo es que sabe que tiene una dentadura bonita
~ Enrique Jardiel Poncela
Hay dos sistemas de conseguir la felicidad: uno, hacerse el idiota; otro, serlo.
~ Enrique Jardiel Poncela
Reír es lo más importante del mundo: y humorismo se escribe con hache...
~ Enrique Jardiel Poncela
Después de todo, la vida es un ameno y grave recorrido por los más diversos funerales.
~ Enrique Vila-Matas
Lo apocalíptico exige ser tratado sin excesiva seriedad.
~ Enrique Vila-Matas