"Inner child, what do you suggest? 'I WANT A TREEHOUSE!' Anything else to add? 'FARTY NOISE UNDER THE ARM!'"
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"Kids did really well in their A levels, how do we respond? 'A Levels are getting easier, in my day you had to do fifty questions in a minute, if you got one wrong, they killed your dad!"
"All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny."
"Holding back is so close to stealing."
"The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions."
"If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little."
"If drumsticks are for playing drums, you would think that breadsticks would be for playing bread, wouldn't you? "Would you like some breadsticks?" "No, thank you, I don't play bread. I play drums. Perhaps I'll have a drum roll.""
"The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron."
"If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of the oncoming train."
"All you have shall some day be given. Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors."
"Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world."
"I think people talk too much anyway. Sometimes people are talking to me and in my mind I'm just like “shut up, shut up, shut upblah blah blah blah blaaaaah."
"My plumbing is all screwed up. Because it turns out, I do not own a garbage disposal."
"I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s."
"A joke's a very serious thing."
"All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl."
"Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you."
"To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition."
"I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones."
"A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure."