Funny Quotes to Make You Laugh – Page 7 | GloryQuotes

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day.

Seth MacFarlane

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

V. S. Naipaul

The house of laughter makes a house of woe.

Edward Young

It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.

Max Cannon

So, whenever Scooter was the Pilot, he never had a chance to fly the orbiter. So, the joke is: I'm going to have a chance to fly it first and hand it over to him.

Duane G. Carey

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e. e. cummings

Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

Niels Bohr

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Katherine Mansfield

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Karl Barth

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.

Bill Gates

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.

Bill Forsyth

Humor can be one of our best survival tools.

Allen Klein

They don't make you pay for the humor. It's up and down, but they're trying to give you as many laughs as possible in 2 minutes. They are the most honest comedians ever.

Mike Judge

You know, you can touch a stick of dynamite, but if you touch a venomous snake it'll turn around and bite you and kill you so fast it's not even funny.

Steve Irwin

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

Langston Hughes

If you can't laugh about sex, you shouldn't be doing it.

Sue Johanson

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

Henri Bergson

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

Angela Carter

Comedy. I think that's something I'd really like to do.

David R. Ellis

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.

Malcolm Muggeridge

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

Christopher Fry

I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny.

Ridley Scott

Puns are a form of humor with words.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

Christopher Morley

It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.

Brendan Behan

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.

Francois Truffaut

A joke is a very serious thing.

Winston Churchill

And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.

Nigella Lawson

Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

Nicolas Roeg

Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories.

Matt Groening

I like old people falling over, that's what makes me laugh.

Allan Carr

They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls.

Laura Bush

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

Dan Simmons

The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

Aaron Allston

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Sholom Aleichem

The gods too are fond of a joke.

The secret to humor is surprise.

I've never really understood that. It's a funny thing; people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is kind of inexplicable.

Joel Coen

Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.

Sara Paretsky

Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

Robert Collier

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

Yakov Smirnoff

A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House.

Adlai Stevenson

If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it.

Denis Norden

I do jokes about what's funny, and both sides are funny.

Mark Russell

I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.

Leslie Fiedler