Humor Quotes
Laughter as philosophy. The funniest, sharpest observations about the absurdity of being alive.
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"If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, or of weeping. Just watch him laugh."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Humor and laughter are the languages of the soul."Leo Tolstoy
"We are all born mad. Some remain so."Samuel Beckett
"Everything is futile, so we might as well laugh."Samuel Beckett
"Nothing is funnier than unhappiness."Samuel Beckett
"Boredom is a response to boredom; it creates a vacuum."Anton Chekhov
"There is nothing quite so foolish as pretending to be wise."Anton Chekhov
"Laughter is the best medicine."George Bernard Shaw
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it."George Bernard Shaw
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."George Bernard Shaw
"I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports enjoys them."George Bernard Shaw
"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy."William Butler Yeats
"Humor is a way of dealing with pain."Thomas Hardy
"Laughter is the best medicine."Thomas Hardy
"I can resist everything except temptation."Oscar Wilde
"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about."Oscar Wilde
"The only real difference between men and women is that women are better at reading the small print."Oscar Wilde
"I have the greatest contempt for people who lie and the greatest admiration for liars."Oscar Wilde
"I like men who have a future and women who have a past."Oscar Wilde
"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."Oscar Wilde
"I can forgive Alfred for dying but a man of his history should have had more consideration."Oscar Wilde
"The possibility of scandal is what makes people virtuous."Oscar Wilde
"A woman's place is in the wrong."Oscar Wilde
"The more one eats, the more one wears; the more one wears, the better one eats."Samuel Beckett
"The real disaster is the absence of disaster."Samuel Beckett
"We are all born mad. Some remain so."Samuel Beckett
"I am waiting for the day when boredom will kill me."Samuel Beckett
"We should all be more like dogs."Samuel Beckett
"The world is a stage and we are the comedians."Samuel Beckett
"Humor is the weapon of the wise."James Joyce