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George Carlin Comedian, Actor
Humor

"They say if you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. Well, those are precisely the people who need them!"

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Lewis Black Comedian, Actor, Author
Humor

"When they played, it wasn't music. It was the sound of chaos. I knew it was the sound of chaos because you could hear pigs being slaughtered. Women were weeping and men were gnashing their teeth, and there were sounds so horrible that I cannot repeat them to you, or you would flee from this room in horror!"

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Lewis Black Comedian, Actor, Author
Humor

"Now, most of the time you couldn't be too sure of the quality of the drug. Although, in my experience the stuff was always of a very high quality, because back then we didn't have business majors peddling lower-quality stuff in an effort to increase profits."

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
Humor

"When a man's dog turns against hime, it is time for his wife to pack her trunk and go home to mamma."

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
Humor

"English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in the wrong place."

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Martin Luther Theologian
Humor

"We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman."

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Elvis Presley Singer, Actor
Humor

"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."

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Demetri Martin Comedian, Actor
Humor

"I saw a door that said exit only. So I entered through it and went up to the guy working there and said "I have good news. You have severely underestimated that door over there. By like a hundred percent.""

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Demetri Martin Comedian, Actor
Humor

"I'm in a weird position, because I like rainbows, but I'm not gay. So whenever I go out wearing a rainbow shirt, I have to put "Not gay." But I'm not against gays, so under that I'll have to put "... but supportive." It's weird how one group of people took refracted light. That's very greedy, gays."

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