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Humor Quotes


"When life hands you lemons say,"Lemons? What else have you got?"- bumper sticker."


"I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them cats."


"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves."


"He who laughs loudest has a high probability of being extremely inebriated."


"If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything."



"Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it."


"To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice."


"I had about as much chance to do that as I did of backpacking my car to the top of Mount Rushmore."


"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."


"The easiest way to remember your future wife's birthday is to marry her on Super Bowl Sunday."


"My greatest thrill was the day Mad magazine spoofed 'Ghost.'"


"The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink."



"You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other."


"You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor."


"Look at what you've done,' Sanguine said, shaking his head with mock severity. 'You have foiled out insidious little plot. You have emerged triumphant and victorious. Curse you, do-gooders. Curse you."


"Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly."


"I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor."



"What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading."


"You know who I pray to? Joe Pesci. Two reasons: First of all, I think he's a good actor, okay? To me, that counts. Second, he looks like a guy who can get things done. Joe Pesci doesn't fuck around. In fact, Joe Pesci came through on a couple of things that God was having trouble with."


"In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra."


"If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well."


"Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it."


"The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job."


"Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor."


"Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time."


"I've never been thrown out of a pub, but I've fallen into quite a few."


"A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk."


"Shit" Bug said, his face sour. "It's that thing again. We've been dealing with it since Pierce. You think you have a lead and then poof" - he made a puffing motion with his fingers - "it melts into nothing and all you have is frustration and the far noise your face makes when you hit you desk with it."Fart.... what?"


"Don't do anything stupid.""Don't worry," I whispered over the line, "I'm an expert on stupid.""You're...""Like, I can spot stupidity, because I know it so well. The way an exterminator knows bugs really well, and can spot where they've been? I'm like that. A stupidinator.""Never say that word again," Prof said."


"Do I look like I want to be eaten alive after sex?"
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