Top Humorous Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Humorous quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Jerry Springer
You're a transsexual fighting with a hermaphrodite over a mistress.
- Jerry Springer
Collection: Humorous
Image of William S. Paley
He who attacks the fundamentals of the American broadcasting industry attacks democracy itself.
- William S. Paley
Collection: Humorous
Image of Jawaharlal Nehru
It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
Collection: Humorous
Image of Marvin Minsky
I bet the human brain is a kludge
- Marvin Minsky
Collection: Humorous
Image of Jamie O'Neill
The people shall further be graded according to wealth, and—humorous touch this—the more obviously a man labor, the more stinting shall be his reward; the more he work in the out-of-doors, the thinner his clothing shall be; the more his labor filthy him, the less water shall he have to wash
- Jamie O'Neill
Collection: Humorous
Image of Richard Peck
I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language.
- Richard Peck
Collection: Humorous
Image of Robert Quillen
Another good reducing exercise consists in placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back.
- Robert Quillen
Collection: Humorous
Image of Fritz Leiber
Ningauble shrugged. You're a hero. You should know.
- Fritz Leiber
Collection: Humorous
Image of Norman Rockwell
If there was sadness in this creative world of mine, it was a pleasant sadness. If there were problems, they were humorous problems.
- Norman Rockwell
Collection: Humorous
Image of Zack de la Rocha
If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face...
- Zack de la Rocha
Collection: Humorous
Image of Megan Abbott
I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they're this sort of tedious place, where everyone is the same, buys the same food and drives around in their little minivans, or the view is that the suburbs are extremely perverse in a humorous way.
- Megan Abbott
Collection: Humorous
Image of Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Collection: Humorous
Image of Roy Ash
Our policy is, when in doubt, do the right thing.
- Roy Ash
Collection: Humorous
Image of Dorothy Parker
Don't look at me in that tone of voice.
- Dorothy Parker
Collection: Humorous
Image of Tamora Pierce
Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.
- Tamora Pierce
Collection: Humorous
Image of Peter David
Why (he wondered rhetorically) do people who have a position that's being attacked constantly state that they have a right to say it, as if the right itself-rather than the statement-has been challenged?
- Peter David
Collection: Humorous
Image of Jon Stewart
Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake.
- Jon Stewart
Collection: Humorous
Image of Ken Thompson
The steady state of disks is full.
- Ken Thompson
Collection: Humorous
Image of Ken Thompson
SCCS, the source motel! Programs check in and never check out!
- Ken Thompson
Collection: Humorous
Image of Toby Young
I really like the Observer. I think I'd love to have a column with a broad reach that would enable me to do some proper reporting, but keep it on sort of a humorous level. I've always had a very happy experience writing for them.
- Toby Young
Collection: Humorous
Image of David Small
One of the glories of doing the book So You Want to Be President? was the shifts in tone, where I was able to be humorous and then very serious. And the impeachment page is certainly the best example of that. I didn't have to think too much about how to present this one. I got the idea right away that a good way of showing the shame of President Nixon would be to put him down in the shadows under the Lincoln Monument, with Lincoln sort of glaring down at him from an elevated, better-lit position.
- David Small
Collection: Humorous
Image of Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humour: he will always use it in evidence against you.
- Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Collection: Humorous
Image of Wolfgang Puck
To me, an airplane is a great place to diet.
- Wolfgang Puck
Collection: Humorous
Image of P. G. Wodehouse
It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't.
- P. G. Wodehouse
Collection: Humorous
Image of P. G. Wodehouse
The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.
- P. G. Wodehouse
Collection: Humorous
Image of Al Bernstein
Even more exasperating than the guy who thinks he knows it all is the one who really does.
- Al Bernstein
Collection: Humorous
Image of Bernard Williams
I like the word "indolence." It makes my laziness seem classy.
- Bernard Williams
Collection: Humorous
Image of William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
God help the patient.
- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
Collection: Humorous
Image of Les Aspin
If you give Congress a chance to vote on both sides of an issue, it will always do it.
- Les Aspin
Collection: Humorous
Image of Constance Rourke
An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.
- Constance Rourke
Collection: Humorous
Image of Darryl F. Zanuck
Don't say yes until I finish talking.
- Darryl F. Zanuck
Collection: Humorous
Image of Fred Couples
I don't answer the phone. I get the feeling whenever I do that there will be someone on the other end.
- Fred Couples
Collection: Humorous
Image of Samuel Foote
So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street pops its head into the shop. What! no soap? So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top, and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.
- Samuel Foote
Collection: Humorous
Image of Robert Newton Peck
Never miss a chance to keep your mouth shut.
- Robert Newton Peck
Collection: Humorous
Image of Mike Harding
The Ruffed Pandanga of Borneo and Rotherham spreads out his feathers in his courtship dance and imitates Winston Churchill and Tommy Cooper on one leg. The padanga is dying out because the female padanga doesn't take it too seriously.
- Mike Harding
Collection: Humorous
Image of Mike Harding
If little green men land in your back yard, hide any little green women you've got in the house.
- Mike Harding
Collection: Humorous
Image of Mike Harding
Invite them all in. Nip out the back door. Phone the police and tell them your house is being burgled.
- Mike Harding
Collection: Humorous
Image of Mike Harding
British Israelites: The British Israelites believe the white Anglo-Saxons of Britain to be descended from the ten lost tribes of Israel deported by Sargon of Assyria on the fall of Sumeria in 721 B.C. ... They further believe that the future can be foretold by the measurements of the Great Pyramid, which probably means it will be big and yellow and in the hand of the Arabs. They also believe that if you sleep with your head under the pillow a fairy will come and take all your teeth.
- Mike Harding
Collection: Humorous
Image of Mike Harding
America was discovered by Amerigo Vespucci and was named after him, until people got tired of living in a place called "Vespuccia" and changed its name to "America"
- Mike Harding
Collection: Humorous
Image of Mike Harding
The people of Halifax also invented the harmonium, a device for castrating pigs during Sunday service.
- Mike Harding
Collection: Humorous
Image of Mike Harding
The Gerat Bald Swamp Hedgehog of Billericay displays, in courtship, his single prickle and does impressions of Holiday Inn desk clerks. Since this means him standing motionless for enormous periods of time he is often eaten in full display by The Great Bald Swamp Hedgehog Eater.
- Mike Harding
Collection: Humorous
Image of Mike Harding
... The Anarchists' [national] anthem is an international anthem that consists of 365 raspberries blown in very quick succession to the tune of Camptown Races. Nobody has to stand up for it, nobody has to listen to it, and, even better, nobody has to play it.
- Mike Harding
Collection: Humorous
Image of Mike Harding
Gold, n.: A soft malleable metal relatively scarce in distribution. It is mined deep in the earth by poor men who then give it to rich men who immediately bury it back in the earth in great prisons, although gold hasn't done anything to them.
- Mike Harding
Collection: Humorous
Image of Mike Harding
When the Ngdanga tribe of West Africa hold their moon love ceremonies, the men of the tribe bang their heads on sacred trees until they get a nose bleed, which usually cures them of that.
- Mike Harding
Collection: Humorous
Image of Julie Kagawa
Touch her, and I'll freeze your testicles off and put them in a jar. Understand?
- Julie Kagawa
Collection: Humorous
Image of Rich Hall
The part of the envelope that tells a person where to place the stamp when they can't quite figure it out for themselves.
- Rich Hall
Collection: Humorous
Image of Rich Hall
The peculiar habit, when searching for a snack, of constantly returning to the refrigerator in hopes that something new will have materialized.
- Rich Hall
Collection: Humorous
Image of Rich Hall
Manhandling the open here spout on a milk carton so badly that one has to resort to using the illegal side.
- Rich Hall
Collection: Humorous
Image of Rich Hall
The slime that accumulates on the underside of a soap bar when it sits in the dish too long.
- Rich Hall
Collection: Humorous
Image of Rich Hall
Having to wander through a maze of ropes at an airport or bank even when you are the only person in line.
- Rich Hall
Collection: Humorous