Humor Quotes

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

21194 quotes

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"Laughter is the best medicine, unless you're diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high up on the list."
Jack Benny
J
"I found out why cats drink out of the toilet. It's cold, it's fresh, they like things cold and fresh."
Jack Benny
J
"I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised."
Jack Benny
J
"I'm not old, I'm classic."
Jack Benny
J
"Age is a number, but in my case it's a really big number."
Jack Benny
J
"Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious."
Jack Benny
L
"The real show hasn't begun until someone makes you laugh."
Lucille Ball
L
"I'm not crazy; I'm just a little uneven."
Lucille Ball
L
"Humor is medicine for the soul."
Lucille Ball
"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me."
Fred Allen
"Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted."
Fred Allen
"I'd like to have a martini, two olives. But that's just me."
Fred Allen
"What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement?"
Fred Allen
"I don't have to talk to you like that. I got lawyers."
Fred Allen
"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs."
Fred Allen
"What happened? Did you make a wisecrack and your throat closed up?"
Fred Allen
"I told my doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places."
Fred Allen
"The Greeks invented logic but the Cretans invented the meeting."
Fred Allen
"A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing but together can decide that nothing can be done."
Fred Allen
"It is reported that when you are in the last-named phase of drunkenness, you see snakes. When you are in the last round, you see double."
Fred Allen
"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to."
Fred Allen
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
Fred Allen
"A critic is a person who sees something bad and bad things to say about it."
Fred Allen
B
"A day without laughter is a day wasted."
Bob Hope
B
"You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake."
Bob Hope
B
"I've never met a man I didn't like, and I've never met a woman I didn't want to meet again."
Bob Hope
B
"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me."
Bob Hope
B
"Being in your sixties is like being in a very nice restaurant and realizing you're about to run out of wine."
Bob Hope
B
"I learned early that the only way to make money in show business is to be funny."
Bob Hope
B
"I've always believed that a good laugh can cure almost anything."
Bob Hope