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Quotes About Misunderstanding

So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'
~ Tommy Cooper
Everyone was laughin'. Even that deaf mute boy was breathing heavy and pointing at me. Which is laughter to their kind.
~ Dave Attell
I wrote my friend a letter using a highlighting pen. But he could not read it, he thought I was trying to show him certain parts of a piece of paper.
~ Mitch Hedberg
Doctor says to a man, "You're pregnant!" The man says, "How does a man get pregnant?" The doctor says, "The usual way - a little wine, a little dinner...."
~ Henny Youngman
You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.
~ Terry Pratchett, Maskerade
Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?
~ Martin Freeman
It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
~ Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith
I don't know if my sense of humor goes over Americans' heads.
~ Ryan Kwanten
From the way Denny's shaking his head, he's either got an injured shoulder or a gnat in his eye.
~ Jerry Coleman
I went into a shop and I said, "Can someone sell me a kettle." The bloke said "Kenwood" I said, "Where is he?"
~ Tim Vine
I heard a guy tell me he liked cherries. I waited to hear if he was going to say "tomatoes", then I realized he like cherries just. That joke is ridiculous.
~ Mitch Hedberg
I was in this restaurant and I asked for something herby. They gave me a Volkswagen with no driver.
~ Tim Vine
Everyone says that I have no sense of humor, then I construct a perfectly sound pun around a well-known psychological condition, and it is ignored.
~ Eoin Colfer
Last night I ordered a whole meal in French. Even the waiter was amazed - it was a Chinese restaurant!
~ Henny Youngman
And then there was my mate who'd just been fitted with a brand new hearing aid. "It's the best in the world", he said. "What type is it?", I asked and he said "ten past twelve".
~ Billy Connolly
I said it jokingly, so this guy was just trying to stir something up that's not there. He's just somebody who doesn't have a sense of humor, like I do.
~ Shaquille O'Neal
Whenever I indulge my sense of humor, it gets me into trouble.
~ Calvin Coolidge
I maintain that some Jew wrote it who probably heard about Christian people but never encountered any.
~ Martin Luther
A beautiful woman moved in next door. So I went over and returned a cup of sugar. She said, "You didn't borrow this." I said, " I will!"
~ Steven Wright
One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing.
~ Dylan Moran
This explains why, whenever a person says sie to me, I generally try to kill him, if a stranger.
~ Mark Twain
He hadn't said a word to me until we had been roommates for eight months. And even then it had only been, "You're wearing my socks.
~ Melody J. Bremen, Room 42
Sorry I painted the word 'twat' on your garage door.
~ David Shrigley
When I was a wee little kid, " remarked Roic, watching over their shoulders, "there was a time I thought that any skinny old man I saw was my grandfather. It was pretty confusing.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold, CryoBurn