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Short Funny Quotes

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Mohandas Gandhi

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

David Herbert Lawrence

The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

Ernest Hemingway

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

Funny Quotes About Life

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

George Bernard Shaw

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

W. Somerset Maugham

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

Carter Burwell

I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Stealing, you'll go far in life. Actually, there is something funny about getting away with it.

Mike Judge

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

William Arthur Ward

Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.

Allen Klein

Funny Work Quotes

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

Richard Russo

The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.

Karen Hughes

It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.

Edmund S. Muskie

I got to draw monsters, robots and write funny stories. I loved doing that stuff and working with the actors. But it got to be less and less that stuff and more about trying to be everywhere and not being able to do one thing very enjoyably.

Jhonen Vasquez

There are a hell of a lot of jobs that are scarier than live comedy. Like standing in the operating room when a guy's heart stops, and you're the one who has to fix it!

Jon Stewart

The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers.

Marc Maron

There's a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress.

Tom Berenger

Comedy is so fun. I don't know how these people can make movies and work on them for four months and they're these sob stories. I don't know how emotionally you get through that.

Colleen Haskell

More Funny Quotes

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

George Santayana

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

Henry Ward Beecher

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

W. Somerset Maugham

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.

Robert Louis Stevenson

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.

While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.

Yahoo Serious

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

Miguel de Cervantes

As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

So we used to look for funny songs, and learn them and play them. And we used to play them in pubs.

Neil Innes

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

E. B. White

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.

Lord Chesterfield

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

William Shakespeare

I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.

Matthew Vaughn

You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.

Steve Irwin

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

Baruch Spinoza

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.

George Byron

I believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter.

Yakov Smirnoff

Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.

Jesse Ventura

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

Samuel Richardson

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

Bryant H. McGill

What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.

Joseph Barbera

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

Golda Meir

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

Francois Rabelais

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

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