Humor Quotes

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

21194 quotes

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"I find the world rather amusing."
Brendan Behan
B
"My main regret in life is that I never got to beat up more Nazis."
Brendan Behan
B
"I'm not afraid of hard work; I can watch other people do it for hours."
Brendan Behan
B
"I am the master of my fate, except on Mondays."
Brendan Behan
B
"I'm suspicious of any man who doesn't laugh."
Brendan Behan
"The beauty of Irish storytelling lies in its ability to find humor in hardship."
Frank O'Connor
"The Irish have always understood that laughter is a form of survival."
Frank O'Connor
C
"Humor became my way of refusing to let darkness have the final word."
Christy Brown
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"Humor is the spice of life."
Sean O'Casey
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"Humor helps us survive the unsurvivable."
Sean O'Casey
"In Ireland, we have a saying: 'A man who doesn't laugh is a man who doesn't live.'"
Frank O'Connor
C
"I learned to laugh at myself before others could laugh at me."
Christy Brown
S
"Humor is the salt that makes life bearable; without it, we would perish from despair."
Seán Ó Faoláin
"Shopping is the only thing I really enjoy anymore."
Douglas Coupland
"Humor is the distance between what we expect and what actually happens."
Douglas Coupland
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"There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary."
Brendan Behan
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"People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one."
Brendan Behan
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"You're a queer fella. That's the nicest compliment I could give."
Brendan Behan
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"I was made in China."
Brendan Behan
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"There's no place like home, except the pub."
Brendan Behan
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"I have a left hand that does what it wants."
Brendan Behan
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"Never throw stones at your mother—use bread."
Brendan Behan
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"I respect the military. I'm just not sure they know how to have fun."
Brendan Behan
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"I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult."
Brendan Behan
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"I drink to forget, but it doesn't work."
Brendan Behan
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"In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs."
Brendan Behan
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"The problem with the world is too many people growing up."
Brendan Behan
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"I never liked the English, even as a child."
Brendan Behan
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"I never saw a situation that couldn't be made worse by the presence of a policeman."
Brendan Behan
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"Drink is the curse of the working classes and the blessing of the Irish."
Brendan Behan