Best 15707 quotes in «humor quotes» category

I thought my teeth were white until I washed my face with Noxzema. My teeth are off-white. I'm not even white. I'm off-white. It's a new race; we will prevail!

It is a curious fact, but a fact it is, that your witty people are the most hard-hearted in the world. The truth is, fancy destroys feeling. The quick eye to the ridiculous turns every thing to the absurd side; and the neat sentence, the lively allusion, and the odd simile, invest what they touch with something of their own buoyant nature. Humor is of the heart, and has its tears; but wit is of the head, and has only smiles - and the majority of those are bitter.

It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously

It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny.

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.

It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

It is not in the power of every one to taste humor, however he may wish it; it is the gift of God! and a true feeler always brings half the entertainment along with him.

It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.

It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.

I took a course in speed waiting. Now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes.

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

I told my doctor I wonna stop aging, he gave me a gun!

I took a baby shower.

I travel with a boom box. When I get on a plane, I stuff the power cord for the boom box into the battery compartment. From an outsider's point of view, it looks like I've got it all wrong.

I tried to walk into Target, but I missed. I think the entrance to Target should have people splattered all around.

I tried to have a cookie, and this girl said, "I'm mailing those cookies to my friend." So I couldn't have one. You shouldn't make cookies untouchable.

I tried the Scarsdale diet and the Stillman water diet (you remember that one, where you run weight off trying to get to the bathroom).

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

I tried eating vegetarian. I felt like a wimp going into a restaurant. "What do you want to eat sir? Broccoli?" Broccoli's a side dish, folks. Always was, always will be, OK! When they ask me what I want, I say: What do you think I want? This is America. I want a bowl of raw red meat right now.

I tried to like it. For me, it was like being smacked around the head by a piece of IKEA furniture: it hurts, but you've got to admire the workmanship.

It's absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer. We have men, we've got rockets, we've got saran wrap - fix it!

I try to think up material that might apply to the subjects they are studying. How many mitochondria does it take to power a cell? One. Because mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell. Not ready for prime time, that one.

It's a fine night to have an evening.

I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically English form of humour. It's a piece with such jokes as the one about the man who was being led to the gallows to be hanged. He looked at the trap door in the gallows, which was flimsily constructed, and he asked in some alarm, 'I say, is that thing safe?

It's a base hit on the error by Roberts.

It's a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority.

It's all a big hoax, honey. I never wrote a song in my life. I get one-third of the credit for recording it. It makes me look smarter than I am. I've never even had an idea for a song. Just once, mybe.

It's been my experience that people who make proclamations about themselves are usually the opposite of what they claim to be.

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.

It's certainly easy to mock some things ... Oddly enough though I've never found it easy to mock anything of value. Only things that are tawdry and fatuous - perhaps it's just me.

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

It's difficult isn't it, when you're in a Mosque and everyone's praying and you really enjoy leapfrog.

It's easy to smile when you have a squirrel's intellect.

it's dreadful when two people's senses of humor are antagonistic. I don't believe there's any bridging that gulf!

It's good they're holding the Olympics in the East End of London. Means the athletes will have to use extra skill to work out which gunshot is the starting pistol.

It's funny - there's nothing that stops you laughing like the sight of other people laughing about something else.

It's hard to think of yourself as a loser at 2 years old.

It's impossible to ravish me, I'm so willing.

It's important I surround myself with people who make me happy.

It should not be an act of social disobedience to light a cigarette. Unless you're actually a doctor working at an incubator.

It's not a stereotype if it's always true.

It's more difficult getting up early in the morning when you're wearing silk pajamas.

It's not all about love. That's half of it... The other half is about that moment you have with yourself when you're looking in the mirror, and you just go, 'Oh man. I'm going to compromise my dreams, get fat, sick, old and die someday. I kind of want to have someone around for that.'

It's not so hard to get rich as it is to know when you have gotten rich.

It's not Spring Break until somebody dies!