Humor Quotes

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

21194 quotes

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"One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress."
John Adams
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"The British seem to think the only thing that is necessary to bind the American people together is a good hiding."
John Adams
"You cannot polish a turd, but you can roll it in glitter."
Benjamin Franklin
"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."
Benjamin Franklin
"The world is full of complainers. The world has always been full of complainers."
Benjamin Franklin
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"If God intended woman to vote, He would have given her the same brains that He gave to man."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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"I have a motto: 'Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.'"
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"In God we trust. All others must pay cash."
Benjamin Franklin
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"I have all the dispositions of a martyr; but not the cause."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper."
Thomas Jefferson
"The moon is made of green cheese."
Benjamin Franklin
"Fart proudly - this alone is a true liberty."
Benjamin Franklin
"All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer."
Benjamin Franklin
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"A sensible woman would probably hesitate in accepting such a man as a husband."
George Washington
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"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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"The natural order of things is that woman should do the cooking."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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"Get the audience smiling, and then you can say what you want."
Frederick Douglass
"Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions."
Thomas Jefferson
"My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office."
Thomas Jefferson
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"I am not at all in a humorous mood and I do not care much to converse."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is the freshness of the soul."
Thurgood Marshall
"I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers."
Thurgood Marshall
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"Every one who takes himself seriously is ridiculous."
Frederick Douglass
"I think if given the choice between fowls and women, I think we are nearer akin to the first."
Emmeline Pankhurst
"I get no respect. I go to the parking lot, a cop orders me to move my car. I say, 'But this is the Supreme Court.'"
Thurgood Marshall
"I'm the only one in my family who doesn't gamble. That's because I'm already on the biggest gamble of my life."
Thurgood Marshall
"When you're right, you're right. And when you're wrong, you're just another civil rights lawyer."
Thurgood Marshall
"Humor is the smile of wisdom."
Jawaharlal Nehru
"The only thing I like integrated is coffee."
Malcolm X
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"Some of my best friends are men, yet I would not trust the government of the country to any of them."
Susan B. Anthony