Top 100 Humor Laughing Quotes
#1. I was interested in the mystical element of humor - was humor part of creation? Is God laughing at us, or with us?
Rebecca Miller
#2. We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.
Terry Pratchett
#3. Laughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the tables on tragedy. You can't laugh and be angry, you can't laugh and feel sad, you can't laugh and feel envious.
Bel Kaufman
#4. God probably thinks it's worth giving a sense of humor only to those of us who have to laugh at all the rubbish bits that are wrong with us.
Allison Pearson
#5. Writers are encouraged to "keep 'em laughing" and complain "with good humor" in order to "win" allies. The joke is always on ourselves.
Alice Childress
#7. Rolf! what? are you really rolling on the floor laughing? well, please stay down there for a sec while I KICK YOUR ASS.
David Levithan
#8. Of course one worries about getting older - we're all fearful of death, let's not kid ourselves. I'm simply not panicking as my laugh lines grow deeper. Who wants a face with no history, no sense of humor?
Cate Blanchett
#9. They all laughed when I said I'd become a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now.
Bob Monkhouse
#10. Wisdom is for statues. Humor uncaps our inhibitions, unleashes our energies, seals friendships, patches hurts. Laughing is probably the most alive you can be.
James Wolcott
#11. Jumping, waving arms, cheering, laughing, head-butting him in the groin, an unfortunate ritual in the Tanner home, very much unappreciated by Jim, but tolerated for the sake of the children, Grace, Bobby and Steven joined Jason next to their father.
Mike Jackson
#12. I consider myself always a humorist. And I think anybody who tells jokes or makes people laugh is humor.
Dick Gregory
#13. Your brain is doing some great work when it's laughing.
Jon Scieszka
#14. I enjoy watching a woman with really bad teeth and a good sense of humor struggling to use her lips and tongue to hide her teeth when she's laughing. I just stand there and tell her joke after joke after joke.
George Carlin
#15. Not everything is funny or will make you laugh...but what a worthy goal to have.
Bobby Darnell
#16. You spend so much of your life crafting this stuff that you want to laugh in the room. I don't want to sit there and slit my wrists. And I think it reflects reality. People use humor to survive, even in the most horrific situations.
Jenji Kohan
#17. Because humor brings us back to earth, it helps us to use well what is left to us even when we are keenly aware of what we have lost or been denied. Only those who know how to weep can also laugh heartily.
Kathleen R Fischer
#18. I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I have never stooped to spell cat with a 'k' to get at your funny bone. I love a drink, but I never encouraged drunkenness by harping on its alleged funny side.
Mark Twain
#19. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.
Bill Mauldin
#20. Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950's. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.
Chuck Palahniuk
#21. A person who can laugh and go with life does not demand to be in control, which is why the most controlling people may be sarcastic but lack an authentic sense of humor.
Richard Rohr
#22. The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they've been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.
James Thurber
#23. The problem is that we've got a sense of humor and (Republicans have) got guns. Will we die laughing?
Thomas M. Disch
#24. A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?
Bob Hope
#25. We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
May Sarton
#27. What a goon, except it really is funny, me trying to sneeze a hot dog through my nose, and we're both laughing like total morons.
Rodman Philbrick
#28. I'm bored of this. I want to hear about you. Favorite color. Go."
I laugh. "Green."
"I'm green!"
"Fuck yeah you are."
"Why are you laughing? Isn't this what friends do?"
"Interrogate each other?"
"What? Uh, sure. I don't know what that means. But yes.
Hannah Moskowitz
#29. As you meditate, you'll develop a sense of humor so that you can laugh at yourself, which you need to do in this world.
Frederick Lenz
#30. If I can't find a theme, I can't make a film anyone else will feel. I can't laugh at intellectual humor. I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart ...
Walt Disney
#31. Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions
Criss Jami
#32. I like to smoke a pipe, because it's the punch line indicator. Whenever I take a hit of the pipe, you should be laughing.
Mitch Hedberg
#33. I turned to watch the women on the dance floor, laughing and smiling and watching Travis and Megan vertically dry fucking.
Jamie McGuire
#34. Even in drama, I like to try to find the humor because I think it's very human. Even in the depths of dreadful situations, there's usually something rather comic, or something you can laugh about afterwards, at least.
Colm Meaney
#35. That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
A. Whitney Brown
#36. Why do we have to humiliate someone to crack a joke??? Do what u would like people to do with u..
Honeya
#37. Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.
Max Eastman
#38. There is something about being a director where, for me personally, I get to ... it's the closest I'll ever come to being able to be a stand up. And to use my particular sense of humor, and hear people laughing, without me having to stand up in front of an audience and tell jokes.
Barry Sonnenfeld
#39. A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
Barbara Walters
#40. My family were hitters. If you made them laugh, they didn't hit you. My dad wouldn't hit me if I got him with humor right between the eyes.
Roseanne Barr
#41. Our sense of humor," said Mother, her eyes pooled with laughing tears. "They can't take that away from us, right?
Ruta Sepetys
#42. I think that God's got a sick sense of humour, and when I die I expect to find him laughing.
Music Sales Corporation
#43. Sometimes I do readings and people can't stop laughing, but I'm reading about pretty tragic things. I think Soviet humor is a desperate humor, rather typical of very different nations, of Jewish people, Ukrainians, and of course, Russians. It's despair - just keep laughing, until you are dead.
Alina Bronsky
#44. Why sadness was created?
So we could rest from laughing.
Nelson M. Lubao
#45. You know what make me laugh? Good, clean, honest humor. Not-trying-to-be-funny humor. Like Will Ferrell. Will Ferrell got that kind of humor.
Redman
#46. Expel the object!" Freak shouts. "Regurgitate, you big moron!" and he gives me another thump and I cough up this yucky mess, but I'm still laughing so hard my nose is running.
Rodman Philbrick
#47. I love [Nikolai] Gogol's great eye for idiot behavior. Gogol said that life is so tragic, so stupendously sad that we'd better laugh a lot and enjoy ourselves. You either get a sense of humor going or you go under.
Mel Brooks
#48. Childishness? I think it's the equivalent of never losing your sense of humor. I mean, there's a certain something that you retain. It's the equivalent of not getting so stuffy that you can't laugh at others.
Walt Disney
#49. There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about.
Criss Jami
#50. When someone tells you somebody's been murdered, laughing is probably not the best response. You know, for future reference.
But laughing is exactly what I did.
Rachel Hawkins
#51. There's a guy in the audience with a distinctive laugh. I hope that guy is miked. The only problem with having a distinctive laugh is I know exactly when that guy isn't laughing. "Oh, distinctive laugh doesn't think that joke was funny!"
Mitch Hedberg
#52. I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth.
Will Rogers
#53. I think we're losing our sense of humor instead of being able to relax and laugh at ourselves. I don't care whether it's ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, or whose ox is being gored.
Betty White
#54. The three women laughing over there? Dark wavy hair, coffee skin, and beautiful matching sets of big, lovely - "
I slapped him on the arm.
"Hey. Eyes. I was going to say eyes. What were you thinking?
Devon Monk
#55. At one point I thought I broke his face, but he turned out to just be laughing really hard.
Vali Chandrasekaran
#56. American humor ... is not subtle. It is something that makes you laugh the moment you hear it, you have not to think a scrap.
Elinor Glyn
#57. We take ourselves way too seriously, and we don't take God seriously enough. It is not by accident that humor and humility come from the same root word. If you can laugh at yourself, you'll always have plenty of good material.
Rick Warren
#58. Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
Kara Walker
#59. I can't help it, Kate. And I'm laughing at me. I feel like one of those sappy men who run around with a big grin on his face all the time. I feel like grinning all the time around you, and it's so idiotic.
Christine Feehan
#60. Roy Blount, who is the funniest person I know, journeys deep into the dark heart of humor and brings back a wonderfully insightful, superbly crafted song of the soul that had me laughing and crying too
Dave Barry
#61. What makes a good family? Well, I suppose obviously love. Love lubricated often I think by humor. I think a family that can laugh at each other and tease themselves and who are able to be jolly with each other I think is the key.
Stephen Fry
#62. I don't lie to you," Alan said. "I lie WITH you."
Sin stopped looking up at him from under her eyelashes and burst out laughing.
Alan went red. "So I've just realized how that come out. Uh.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#63. (Not every doctor can look into a mouse's ear without laughing)
E.B. White
#64. A woman can make a man feel older or younger than his years if she so chooses. Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men. Women were made with a sense of humor so they could love men instead of laughing at them.
Will Rogers
#65. I use a lot of humor, and I follow the saying that if you want to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh first, otherwise, they will shoot you. So I can tell you a joke and maybe you will laugh at the beginning. But it's not about telling jokes.
Sayed Kashua
#67. I'll be fine. My fear will keep me warm."
She laughed. I think it was the first time I'd heard her laugh, and I looked at her in surprise.
"You're funny," she said.
"Oh yeah, I'm a laughing riot.
Andrew Klavan
#68. We often laughed at others in our house, and I picked up the craft of being polite while people were present and laughing later if there was anything to laugh about.
Muriel Spark
#69. My dad has a dry, deadpan sense of humor, and my mom has an unexpected, wacky take on things. They really encouraged laughing at ourselves and the weirdness of situations that come up growing up in politics.
Kristin Gore
#70. I have a feeling we're mooning a mean junkyard dog, all brave and laughing - until the dog's leash breaks
Kevin J. Anderson
#71. Life has a whimsical way of kicking you in the throat. I find it to
be one huge cosmic joke at our expense, only nobody is laughing
but the forces that be - given that they are even a wee bit human.
Lori Goldson
#72. Laughing at ones own attempt at humor while saying things just come to me should be punishable by death.
Dov Davidoff
#73. I thought the line 'I am the daughter of the former governor of Alaska' was very funny. I think the word is 'sarcasm.' In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life.
Andrea Fay Friedman
#74. If looks could kill ... well, Dick was already dead, so nothing would happen. But Gabriel was not laughing.
"See Dick," Dick said, pointing at his chest. He then swept his hand dangerously close to mind. "Jane. Dick and Jane. Come on, you humorless jackass. That's funny.
Molly Harper
#75. Humor is how you change people's opinions, and if you can make someone laugh, they'll listen, even if they hate you.
John Waters
#76. He looked so silly that I could not stop laughing, even as my tears kept flowing. Is the root of laughter also sorrow? As I laughed, I was filled with both joy and sorrow.
Kyung-Sook Shin
#77. I've never been bothered with my conduct. I've only been bothered by people that don't get it correct when they gossip about me.
Shannon L. Alder
#78. No matter where life takes me, you'll find me with a smile. Presumed to be happy, always laughing like a child. I never thought life could be this sweet! It's got me cheesing from cheek to cheek!
Mac Miller
#79. You need to laugh more. Life is filled with too many problems, to not laugh every day ... We need to have a sense of humor going into this because it's too tough without it.
Ysabella Brave
#80. When there's characters out there that don't have humor, I don't find them as believable, because we all have humor, no matter what level it is, we all use it every day, no matter what situation we're in, we'll try and have a bit of a laugh even if it goes wrong.
Rhys Darby
#81. Everybody laughed for a long time, for it was the kind of joke that seemed to grow on you. You would laugh and eventually stop. But after a few minutes you would think of the joke again, and you would burst out laughing all over again.
Zakes Mda
#82. A general truth is to have a good sense of humor. Roll with the punches of life's ups and downs. Laughing at yourself always helps.
Jill Abramson
#83. I laugh almost everyday. I have a good sense of humor, so I'm always finding something funny.
Condoleezza Rice
#84. The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
Oliver Goldsmith
#85. Laughing is good. so long as you are not insulting anyone.
A Gentlemen
#86. The only way to cry your eyes out and laugh your ass off at the same time is to have your mom or girlfriends present. Without them, the laughing part wouldn't be nearly as fun.
Shannon L. Alder
#87. Charlie Chaplin said something to the effect that humor is an act of defiance, that we must laugh in the face of our helplessness in the forces of nature or go insane. And where is he now? Dead.
Doug Stanhope
#88. I do love comedy, but I'm not brave enough to tackle a script whose goal is to make you laugh. That's tough. The ones that can do it, I tip my hat off to them, but I don't have that kind of humor or mind.
William H. Macy
#89. She looked over my shoulder once while I was texting, which was already annoying, and when I wrote lol she made a very clear point to me about how I was silent and not laughing out loud, not at all. I said it was just an expression, and that I was laughing out loud inside my own mind.
Aimee Bender
#91. How do you deal with it?" Kami asked Jared. "The laughing at nothing and occasionally stopping dead in your tracks."
"I have a system where when I stop, I lean casually against something," Jared told her. "It makes people think I'm a bad boy. Or possibly that I have a bad back.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#92. Anybody with a good sense of humor is one-up on their competition. We respond to somebody who has the ability to make us laugh. It's a bonding influence.
Robert Orben
#93. If there's a vote taken as to which aspect of God I treasure the most, I'd say laughing.
Art Hochberg
#94. Is it? Because that picture of me was taken by my old school's yearbook club, and they put it in the section titled 'STUDENT FAILSAUCES! XD.
What's an XD?
A sideways laughing face of horrendous proportions. Don't change the subject.
Sara Wolf
#95. We had a teacher called Fanny Menlove, and I remember once when she was out of the room Nancy went up to the blackboard and wrote it backward - Menlove Fanny - and we all fell around laughing. She got into big trouble, but she didn't seem to mind. She had no fear.
Peter FitzSimons
#96. Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
Allen Klein
#97. For Keeping the Faith, I looked at [George ] Cukor's old films like The Philadelphia Story, stuff that's hilariously funny and really smart with a cutting critique in the humor, too. With this, when I read it, I was laughing a lot.
Edward Norton
#98. Laughing at your pettiness probably works better than scolding yourself for it.
Sharon Salzberg
#99. You better hope she doesn't say a word," Gabe warned, lifting a finger to Uri's nose.
Uri grabbed the finger laughing, "What are you going to do, cupcake? Seduce me to death, in all your sexy glory?"
"Just shut up," Gabe groaned, pushing the door shut in his friend's face.
Wendy Owens
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