Funny Quotes to Make You Laugh – Page 6 | GloryQuotes

Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

Malcolm Muggeridge

In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets; you may not find something to laugh about immediately.

Allen Klein

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

Kurt Vonnegut

I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned.

Michael Bay

No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.

Annie Leibovitz

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.

Marcus Fabius Quintilian

With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself.

Seth MacFarlane

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Abraham Lincoln

Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical.

Leslie Fiedler

Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

Edward de Bono

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

Ivan Turgenev

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

Edward de Bono

Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday.

Jerry B. Jenkins

For me, a hearty "belly laugh" is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.

Bennett Cerf

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

Thomas de Quincey

But as far as being popular, yeah, I think Dave Barry is really funny.

Jonathan Franzen

I don't know anyone who enjoys going to the hospital. To help remedy this, I got an idea to create what a Laugh Room in the pediatric ward of hospitals.

Joseph Barbera

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Miguel de Cervantes

According as the man is, so must you humour him.

Jean Racine

Then after that came word processors and it's hard to make those laugh.

Denis Norden

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

We feel that what's too far is when you make a joke and somebody gets hurt.

Bobby Farrelly

I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures.

Brian De Palma

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

Edward Albee

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

Washington Irving

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

Hermann Hesse

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

Marcus Fabius Quintilian

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

H. P. Lovecraft

You know when Jerry Ford gets the best joke, you know you're in trouble.

Mark Russell

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

Dr. Seuss

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

Umberto Eco

Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.

Mort Walker

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

It is still not clear from this study how laughter can directly help the heart but other studies have shown that laughter is beneficial for every system in the body.

Allen Klein

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Laurence Sterne

After doing Johnny I wanted to just do something, I wouldn't say innocent, but to not have any care in the world. Lots of setups and horrible happenings but its funny.

Jhonen Vasquez

A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.

Graham Greene

Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt the more complex stories for older children too.

Margaret Mahy

I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.

Roland Joffe

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

H. G. Wells

Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.

Shel Silverstein

If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.

Russell Lynes

I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.

Rahm Emanuel