Best 3518 quotes in «humour quotes» category

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.

Nowadays tournaments are for nurseries. Look at those kiddies.

My opponent is Short and the match will be short.

One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.

Only six need be attempted.

The best thing about humour is that it shows people they are not alone.

The comedy gods are smiling on me tonight.

The humour of Dostoievsky is the humour of a barloafer who ties a kettle to a dog's tail.

The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves.

There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.

The whole [Scotch] nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it.

The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

Now I have the pawn and the compensation.

Once I asked Teichman what he thought of Bird's chess: "Same as his health," he replied, "always alternating between being dangerously ill and dangerously well.

Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.

Sometimes strident, often tender, never afraid and seldom without humour, Desmond Tutu's voice will always be the voice of the voiceless.

Sure, there's no 'i' in team, but there is an 'm' and an 'e'.

Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant

Tod laughed. He was always able to find the humour in even the creepiest situations. I'd thought that it was an undead thing, until I became a member of the undead. Then I realized it was a Tod-thing.

We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.

We've had a day of great drama and of humour too. The rumour mill is now taking over

We haven't got a plan so nothing can go wrong!

While it is entirely untrue that Canadians lack a sense of humour, the funniest ones tend to head south: Dan Aykroyd, Jim Carrey, Michael J. Fox.

£500.” He hisses furiously at me. “I can’t believe I’ve spent £500 on an entire new wardrobe and a new haircut – one that I didn’t even want my I add!” As he talks, I skip happily, a dreamy smile plastered all over my face. I’ve had, without a shadow of a doubt, the best day ever. “I can.” I answer, my voice rising several decibels, as I lose myself, currently, on cloud nine. “I’ve loved spending your money. It feels awesome!

50% of all facts are false and the other half are just made up

When you absolutely don't know what to do anymore, it is time to panic

[About Uluru] I'm suggesting nothing here, but I will say that if you were an intergalactic traveler who had broken down in our solar system, the obvious directions to rescuers would be: "Go to the third planet and fly around till you see the big red rock. You can't miss it." If ever on earth they dig up a 150,000-year-old rocket ship from the galaxy Zog, this is where it will be. I'm not saying I expect it to happen; not saying that at all. I'm just observing that if I were looking for an ancient starship this is where I would start digging.

absinthe removes the bitter taste of failure and grants me strange visions which are charming principally because they cannot be written down. Only in absinthe do I become entirely free and, when I drink it, I understand the symbolic mysteries of odour and of colour.

A bunch of bad songs, make an awful whine.

Absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder. Absence makes the bloody penis wander. ~ Heartbreak's A Bitch!

Absurd laughter is a kind of protest against an absurd existence.

Accentuaute the positives - medicate the negatives.

A dragon is a norn’s best friend. Norn saying.

A Drunkard accuses a Drunkard... A sot became extremely drunk - his legs And head sank listless, weighed by wine's thick dregs. A sober neighbour put him in a sack And took him homewards hoisted on his back. Another drunk went stumbling by the first, Who woke and stuck his head outside and cursed. "Hey, you, you lousy dipsomaniac," He yelled as he was borne off in the sack, "If you'd had fewer drinks, just two or three, You would be walking now as well as me.

Adversity does not just introduce a man to himself. It also introduces, to him, his family, his friends, and his partner.

Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side.

98% of politicians are either corrupt or corruptible.

AAAAIIIE! You're the guy with the things, and the thing that does that thing, and then you did that one thing! Oh, and I think there's something about other things, and maybe you fix things? -Sergeant Schlock

A beach bum is just a blue-collar lounge lizard without a roof over their head.

A book can give you an experience of someone’s life in a few hours, and this is far more profitable than any sale that’s going on.

A bit of useful information. My name is Victoria “call me Vicki” DeVine. I used to be Mrs. Yorick Dane, but giving up my married name was one of the conditions of my receiving valuable property—aka The Jumble—as part of the divorce settlement. Apparently the second official Mrs. Dane didn’t like the idea that someone else had had the name first. Fortunately, she didn’t seem as possessive about Yorick’s Vigorous Appendage. I could have told her that a couple dozen other women had had it before she took possession. But it wasn’t likely that she would keep solo possession of the appendage for long, so let her figure things out the hard way like I did. Of course, if she had been one of those indulgences, then she already knew the signs and might be able to nip them in the bud.

A brain the size of a pea, cannot achieve what a brain the size of a melon can!!

Absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder. It makes people think you're dead.

A celebrity farts, and everyone endures, but the unpopular will be thrased to death.

A chap’s impending death has a way of focusing the mind.

A chap wouldn’t hole up in Occupied France just to get away from his wife, Vesta.

A credit card allows you transcend time. For it allows you to put off until tomorrow what you bought today, while you are still paying off what you bought yesterday.

A credit card allows you transcend time. For it allows you to put off until tomorrow what you bought today, while you are still paying what you bought yesterday.

Actually, we shot it over two days and the ghost of Danny DeVito was devastatingly present the whole time.