Humor Quotes

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

21194 quotes

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"I'm not denying that women are foolish; God Almighty made them to match the men."
George Eliot
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"The more I see of men, the more I like dogs."
George Eliot
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"Rosy cheeks speak well for a woman, but not so well as they do for a peach."
George Eliot
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"The most irritating of all conceivable companions is a man who talks of himself."
Thomas Hardy
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"The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow."
Thomas Hardy
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"Laughter is the best medicine for the weary soul."
Anne Brontë
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"Humor helps us endure suffering."
Anne Brontë
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"Laughter in dark times is defiance."
Anne Brontë
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"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy."
William Butler Yeats
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"Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough."
William Butler Yeats
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"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."
George Bernard Shaw
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"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me."
George Bernard Shaw
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"When you cannot get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one."
George Bernard Shaw
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"Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press."
George Bernard Shaw
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"When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth."
George Bernard Shaw
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"I can resist everything except temptation."
Oscar Wilde
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"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
Oscar Wilde
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"The only thing I don't like about Christmas is that you can't eat turkey again for a year."
Oscar Wilde
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"I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time and prevents arguments."
Oscar Wilde
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"Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinion."
Oscar Wilde
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"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."
Oscar Wilde
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"I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do—the day after."
Oscar Wilde
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"I don't mind dreadful poverty, as long as it is honest."
Oscar Wilde
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"My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's."
Oscar Wilde
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"Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities."
Oscar Wilde
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"I can forgive Alfred Lord Tennyson for anything, even his poetry."
Oscar Wilde
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"To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."
Oscar Wilde
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"One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age."
Oscar Wilde
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"I never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back."
Oscar Wilde
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"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
Oscar Wilde