Humor Quotes

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

21194 quotes

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"The more I know about men the more I like my dog."
Gloria Steinem
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"If men could menstruate, the Dow Jones would go up or down twenty points a day."
Gloria Steinem
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"Humor is a form of truth-telling that makes the unbearable bearable"
bell hooks
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"Semen is awfully funny stuff, isn't it? I mean, to have to produce it and to have to spend the rest of one's life secreting it somewhere."
Germaine Greer
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"If you have never wished you could slap a man in the face, you're probably the man."
Germaine Greer
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"Most of the dirt that I've eaten in my life has been caused by women serving it."
Germaine Greer
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"I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They kept us up all night."
Germaine Greer
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"If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties?"
Gloria Steinem
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"Women are the only group that grows smaller as they age."
Gloria Steinem
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"No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor."
Gloria Steinem
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"Humor is one way we maintain hope and humanity in the face of oppression."
Angela Davis
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"Humor is often the only response to absurdity."
Barbara Smith
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"I think it's important to maintain your own sense of humor about these things."
Arundhati Roy
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"We must laugh together even as we struggle, for humor is also resistance."
Angela Davis
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"Humor is truth wrapped in laughter."
Arundhati Roy
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"Humor helps us cope while we fight climate change."
James Hansen
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"Humor helps us face difficult truths."
James Hansen
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"The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind."
Arundhati Roy
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"Humor is often a way of telling truth when serious words would be rejected."
Arundhati Roy
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"Humor sometimes helps us cope with difficult realities."
James Hansen
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"Humor about our predicament shouldn't diminish our determination."
James Hansen
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"Humor is a way of speaking truth without being heard."
Arundhati Roy
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"Humor helps us survive hardship."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"Laughter lightens the heaviest burdens."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"Humor is the weapon of those without power."
Aimé Césaire
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"Humor in the face of tragedy is sometimes all we have left."
David Brower
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"Humor is a form of resistance to oppression"
Edward Said
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"Humor is the mask we wear to survive tragedy."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"Enjoy your symptom!"
Slavoj Žižek
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"Humor allows us to laugh at what we are too fragile to face seriously."
Slavoj Žižek