Humor Quotes

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

21194 quotes

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"The humor of the oppressed often masks the deepest anguish and most profound wisdom."
Camille Desmoulins
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"I have found humor to be a gift that preserves sanity in dark times."
Louis XVI
"Humor is the weapon of those who have nothing else."
Marie Antoinette
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"The peculiarity of every American is that he believes himself and his country to be superior to all others."
Marquis de Lafayette
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"Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, and Napoleon shakes everything else."
Napoleon Bonaparte
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"My feeling is that the time is not far off when it will be fashionable to be insane."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"A good laugh shared is medicine for the soul"
Paul Revere
"Laughter lightens the burden of existence"
Paul Revere
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"Humor is the medicine that heals wounded relationships"
Benedict Arnold
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"Humor in dark times is an act of defiance"
Benedict Arnold
"The greatest joke is how seriously we take ourselves."
Georges Danton
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"My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office."
John Adams
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"Some people are apt to be very partial to themselves."
Patrick Henry
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"I have found that humor often masks the deepest sorrows."
Benedict Arnold
J
"There is nothing so mortifying as to fall into the hands of a quack."
John Adams
J
"Modesty is a virtue that seldom keeps a man from being promoted."
John Adams
J
"Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable."
John Adams
J
"One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, three is a Congress."
John Adams
J
"A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats."
John Adams
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"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it."
Marquis de Lafayette
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"Humor can disarm injustice where serious argument might harden resistance."
Marquis de Lafayette
"I have nothing to do with that, though I am sorry to say it."
Thomas Paine
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"Humor is the ability to see the absurd without losing one's composure."
Patrick Henry
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"A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice with enthusiasm."
Alexander Hamilton
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"The only thing worse than a blind horse is a blind horse pulling a wagon."
John Adams
"There is nothing so serious as ridicule."
Thomas Paine
"The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately."
Thomas Paine
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"I cannot tell a lie, I did it with my little hatchet."
George Washington
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"Better to be a little merry than just all sad."
George Washington
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"The mob begins to think and reason, Poor reptiles! How they mistake themselves!"
Alexander Hamilton