Quotes about Funny

What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement?

Fred Allen

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

Fred Allen

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

Fred Allen

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for a star.

Fred Allen

California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.

Fred Allen

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Woody Allen

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.

Woody Allen

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

Woody Allen

I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Woody Allen

If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.

Woody Allen

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

Saint Augustine

The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.

Dave Barry

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.

Dave Barry

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Robert Benchley

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

Robert Benchley

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

Yogi Berra

If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.

Yogi Berra

I never said most of the things I said.

Yogi Berra

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

Josh Bilings

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

Josh Bilings

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

Josh Bilings

Never have more children than you have car windows.

Erma Bombeck

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

Erma Bombeck

I'm kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more.

James Brown

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.

George Burns

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday

George Burns

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.

George Burns

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

Samuel Butler

Weather forecast for tonight: dark.

George Carlin

What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?

George Carlin

In comic strips, the person on the right always speaks first.

George Carlin

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

George Carlin

Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.

Chevy Chase

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

Calvin Coolidge

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

Bill Cosby

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

Bill Cosby

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.

Bill Cosby

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

Bill Cosby

I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.

Rodney Dangerfield

I found there was only one way to look thin, hang out with fat people.

Rodney Dangerfield

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.

Rodney Dangerfield

I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.

Bette Davis

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

Bette Davis

People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.

Ellen DeGeneres

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

Ellen DeGeneres

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.

Marlene Dietrich

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Walt Disney

My inner child is not wounded.

Shannen Doherty

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

Albert Einstein

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe

Albert Einstein

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.

W.C Fields

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

W.C Fields

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

W.C Fields

I like children - fried

W.C Fields

I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.

W.C Fields

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Benjamin Franklin

He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

Samuel Goldwyn

For your information, I would like to ask a question.

Samuel Goldwyn

I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.

Mitch Hedberg

I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.

Mitch Hedberg

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.

Mitch Hedberg

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

Katherine Hepburn

Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.

Alfred Hitchcock

The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk.

Dustin Hoffman

A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.

Bob Hope

I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.

Bob Hope

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

Victor Hugo

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries.

Stephen King

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

Henry A. Kissinger

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

Henry A. Kissinger

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

Hedy Lamarr

You're only has good as your last haircut.

Fran Lebowitz

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Fran Lebowitz

The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.

Jay Leno

Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.

Jay Leno

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

Oscar Levant

I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.

Joe E. Lewis

The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love.

Joe E. Lewis

It all started when my dog began getting free roll over minutes.

Jay London

My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings.

Jay London

I can't even get three weeks off to have cosmetic surgery.

Paul Lynde

I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.

Paul Lynde

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

Naguib Mahfouz

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

Imelda Marcos

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday

Don Marquis

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Groucho Marx

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

Groucho Marx

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

Groucho Marx

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

Groucho Marx

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

Groucho Marx

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Groucho Marx

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.

Mercedez McCambridge

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

H.L Mencken

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

H.L Mencken

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

H.L Mencken

I rant, therefore I am.

Dennis Miller

I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess.

Dennis Miller

My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.

Spike Milligan

We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.

Alanis Morissette

I like marriage. The idea.

Toni Morrison

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.

Lewis Mumford

My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.

Mike Myers

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

Howard Nemerov

Never wear anything that panics the cat.

P.J. O'Rourke

Never fight an inanimate object.

P.J. O'Rourke

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

P.J. O'Rourke

Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

P.J. O'Rourke

The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife.

David Ogilvy

Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.

Robert Orben

Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.

Satchel Paige

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Laurence J. Peter

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

Laurence J. Peter

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

Emo Philips

I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.

Emo Philips

My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.

Emo Philips

I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.

Paula Poundstone

Recession is when a neighbour loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

Ronald Reagan

I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

Joan Rivers

Never floss with a stranger.

Joan Rivers

If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.

Joan Rivers

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.

Will Rogers

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water.

Eleonor Roosevelt

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.

Rita Rudner

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Bertrand Russell

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

Carl Sanburg

Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.

Marilyn vos Savant

Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.

Marilyn vos Savant

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.

Charles M. Schulz

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

Charles M. Schulz

I have a love interest in every one of my films - a gun.

Arnold Schwarzenneger

Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

George Bernard Shaw

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

George Bernard Shaw

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

George Bernard Shaw

Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.

Broke Shields

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.

Casey Stengel

There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them.

Casey Stengel

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

James Thurber

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.

Lily Tomlin

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Lily Tomlin

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

Lily Tomlin

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

Harry S. Truman

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

Mark Twain

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

Mark Twain

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

Mark Twain

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

Mark Twain

By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

Mark Twain

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

Mark Twain

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

Tracey Ullman

I think serial monogamy says it all.

Tracey Ullman

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

Voltaire

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Mae West

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

Mae West

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.

Natalie Wood

TV is chewing gum for the eyes

Frank Lloyd Wright

I bought some batteries, but they weren't included

Steven Wright

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

Steven Wright

Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

Steven Wright

A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.

Steven Wright

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

Steven Wright

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

Steven Wright

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

Steven Wright