Humor Quotes

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

21194 quotes

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"I've met saints and sinners, and the sinners are often better company."
Brendan Behan
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"The difference between a man and a boy is the price of his toys."
Brendan Behan
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"In Ireland, the inevitable never happens, only the impossible."
Brendan Behan
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"The British have a way of making everything seem inevitable after they've done it."
Brendan Behan
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"Dublin's a grand city when you've got the price of a pint."
Brendan Behan
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"A Dubliner will tell you anything - whether you want to hear it or not."
Brendan Behan
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"I never wanted to be respectable - respectability is for people with nothing to hide."
Brendan Behan
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"The worst crime is not theft or violence - it's boring someone with your conversation."
Brendan Behan
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"A man who doesn't know how to drink is a man who doesn't know how to live."
Brendan Behan
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"The Irish have a way of turning tragedy into comedy - it's a survival mechanism."
Brendan Behan
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"A man without a sense of humor is a man without a soul."
Brendan Behan
"A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life."
Robertson Davies
"Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people."
Robertson Davies
"The man who is always talking about being a real man usually isn't."
Robertson Davies
"Real joviality is a much rarer thing than most people suppose."
Robertson Davies
"A lawyer is a person who, while shaking your hand, counts your fingers."
Robertson Davies
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"Humor is the survival mechanism of the intelligent."
Joyce Carol Oates
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"Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we were not descended from any king whatsoever."
Harper Lee
"Talking about yourself is inevitable when you don't know what to say."
Douglas Coupland
"We're all pretty crazy sometimes."
Douglas Coupland
"A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles."
Douglas Coupland
"There is a time for laughing and a time for not laughing, and this is not one of them."
Carson McCullers
"There is much to be said for the human beings but the saying of it has always been a little bit of a bore."
Carson McCullers
"Laughter is the best medicine for the troubled heart."
Carson McCullers
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"Pretend to be dead and you might actually fool someone."
Margaret Atwood
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"The Southerner is the most free perhaps of all people in his use of the absurd."
Flannery O'Connor
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"She would have been a good woman if it had been somebody there to shoot her every day of her life."
Flannery O'Connor
"The spirit of comedy is refreshing to all who partake of it."
Robertson Davies
"To laugh at oneself is the beginning of wisdom."
Robertson Davies
"To laugh in the face of adversity is to be truly human."
Robertson Davies