Humor Quotes

Laughter as philosophy. The funniest, sharpest observations about the absurdity of being alive.

21194 quotes

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"No matter how old you get, if you can laugh, you're young."
Bob Hope
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"The world is a stage, but it's a very rough play."
Bob Hope
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"I've stopped predicting the future. It's not what it used to be."
Mort Sahl
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"The difference between comedy and tragedy is just timing and who's getting hurt."
Mort Sahl
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"Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid altogether."
Mort Sahl
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"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it."
Mort Sahl
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"I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical."
Gracie Allen
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"If you want to look young and thin, hang around old fat people."
Gracie Allen
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"I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day."
Gracie Allen
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"Burns and I started as an honest song-and-dance team, but eventually we became too honest."
Gracie Allen
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"I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white man would come down my chimney at night."
Gracie Allen
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"Death is the only thing we haven't sponsored yet."
Gracie Allen
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"Never trust a man who says he's the boss at home. He probably lies about other things too."
Gracie Allen
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"Never let the truth interfere with a good story."
Gracie Allen
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"Burns would come home and say he'd spent the day doing nothing, and I'd say that's good—you're consistent."
Gracie Allen
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"A man's home is his castle, until he tries to change something in the kitchen."
Gracie Allen
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"I've been called a lot of things—scatterbrained, a dizzy dame, airheaded. Funny thing is, they weren't wrong."
Gracie Allen
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"Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious."
Gracie Allen
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"The problem with being on television is that people see you without your makeup, and you see yourself without your dignity."
Gracie Allen
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"The secret of success is knowing who to blame for your failures."
Gracie Allen
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"A penny saved is a penny earned, unless you drop it and it rolls into a storm drain."
Gracie Allen
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"A woman is as young as she feels and as old as she looks. Don't believe either of these."
Gracie Allen
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"If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me."
Gracie Allen
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"People think I'm silly, but silly is just serious with the wrong makeup on."
Gracie Allen
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"Laughter is the best medicine, but if you laugh for no reason, you're insane."
Red Skelton
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"The funniest thing about life is that it happens when you're busy making other plans."
Red Skelton
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"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs."
Red Skelton
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"I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised."
Red Skelton
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"The secret to staying young is to lie about your age."
Red Skelton
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"Humor is the best way to cope with life's challenges."
Red Skelton