Humor Quotes Quotes

Today's Humor Quotes Quote · April 18, 2026
"Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime."
— Red Skelton

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"A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man."

— Lana Turner

"I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party."

— Ron White

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

— Bill Cosby

"Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes."

— Jim Carrey

"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."

— Elbert Hubbard

"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day."

— Frank Sinatra

"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

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Mark Twain

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

— Mae West

"People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."

— Isaac Asimov

"I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three."

— Elayne Boosler

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

— Hedy Lamarr

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

— Lily Tomlin

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

— Steven Wright

"A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it."

— Jerry Seinfeld

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

— Bill Cosby

"Weather forecast for tonight: dark."

— George Carlin

"A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often."

— Oliver Herford

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

— Rodney Dangerfield

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

— Casey Stengel

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

— W. C. Fields

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

— Carl Sandburg

"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."

— Margaret Mead

"All generalizations are false, including this one."

— Mark Twain

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

— Natalie Wood

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

— Fred Allen

"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance."

— Thomas Sowell

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

— P. J. O'Rourke

"My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me."

— Winston Churchill

"By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out."

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Erma Bombeck

"Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you."

— Joey Adams

"A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas."

— Claude Pepper

"Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck."

— George Carlin

"I used to be Snow White, but I drifted."

— Mae West

"You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think."

— Milton Berle

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."

— Douglas Adams

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

— Groucho Marx

"A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore."

— Yogi Berra

"I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat."

— Will Rogers

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

— Woody Allen

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

— Mark Twain

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

— Groucho Marx

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

— Groucho Marx

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

— Steven Wright

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

— Laurence J. Peter

"A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap."

— Mitch Hedberg

"Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement."

— Ronald Reagan

"If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late."

— Henny Youngman

"Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for."

— Will Rogers

"There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments."

— Chris Rock

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

— Rodney Dangerfield

"A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know."

— Laurence J. Peter

"Life is hard. After all, it kills you."

— Katharine Hepburn

"All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats."

— Groucho Marx

"Electricity is really just organized lightning."

— George Carlin

"One picture is worth 1,000 denials."

— Ronald Reagan

"I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?"

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

— Joan Rivers

"I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you."

— Robin Williams

"A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists."

— Don Marquis

"A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours."

— Milton Berle

"My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger."

— Billy Connolly

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

— Joe E. Lewis

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

— Oscar Levant

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

— Robert Orben

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

— Henry A. Kissinger

"Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving."

— Erma Bombeck

"Never have more children than you have car windows."

— Erma Bombeck

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

— Bertrand Russell

"Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?"

— Robin Williams

"Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem."

— Bill Vaughan

"I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done."

— Steven Wright

"A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children."

— David Brenner

"I never said most of the things I said."

— Yogi Berra

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

— W. C. Fields

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

— Bill Cosby

"I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me."

— Warren Buffett

"I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle."

— Mitch Hedberg

"What's another word for Thesaurus?"

— Steven Wright

"In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first."

— George Carlin

"How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand."

— Emo Philips

"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die."

— Mel Brooks

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

— Walt Disney

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

— Imelda Marcos

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

— Charles M. Schulz

"There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory."

— Josh Billings

"Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely."

— P. J. O'Rourke

"I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass."

— David Lee Roth

"They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning."

— Clint Eastwood

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

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

"I bought some batteries, but they weren't included."

— Steven Wright

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

— Calvin Coolidge

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

— Steven Wright

"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends."

— Walt Whitman

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

— Lily Tomlin

"The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."

— Bertrand Russell

"I wear a necklace, cause I wanna know when I'm upside down."

— Mitch Hedberg

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

— H. L. Mencken

"I'm for whatever gets you through the night."

— Frank Sinatra

"Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly."

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

— Bob Hope

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Saint Augustine

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

— Will Rogers

"A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree."

— Spike Milligan

"I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair."

— Hillary Clinton

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

— H. L. Mencken

"Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese."

— Luis Bunuel

"Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands."

— Jerry Lewis

"The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron."

— Phyllis Diller

"My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic."

— Spike Milligan

"Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups."

— Cathy Guisewite

"A lot of baby boomers are baby bongers."

— Kevin Nealon

"When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic."

— Jane Wagner

"The superfluous, a very necessary thing."

— Voltaire

"The next time you have a thought... let it go."

— Ron White

"What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?"

— W. Clement Stone

"It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat."

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

"When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always."

— Rita Rudner

"Fashions have done more harm than revolutions."

— Victor Hugo

"If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth."

— Logan P. Smith

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

— Dave Barry

"This shirt is dry clean only. Which means... it's dirty."

— Mitch Hedberg

"All men are equal before fish."

— Herbert Hoover

"I wanna make a jigsaw puzzle that's 40,000 pieces. And when you finish it, it says 'go outside."

— Demetri Martin

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

— Fred Allen

"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race."

— H. G. Wells

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

— Joan Rivers

"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?"

— H. L. Mencken

"Men are only as loyal as their options."

— Bill Maher

"My one regret in life is that I am not someone else."

— Woody Allen

"I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me."

— Stephen Fry

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

— George Burns

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

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

"You're only as good as your last haircut."

— Fran Lebowitz

"Food is an important part of a balanced diet."

— Fran Lebowitz

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

— Robert Benchley

"Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you she is after your barn."

— Hesiod

"There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap."

— Kevin James

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

— Ellen DeGeneres

"If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner."

— Tallulah Bankhead

"Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease."

— Bill Maher

"All the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911."

— Lewis Black

"Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV."

— Jerry Seinfeld

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

— Robert Benchley

"You see much more of your children once they leave home."

— Lucille Ball

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

— Helen Rowland

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

— Robert Orben

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

— Bette Davis

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

— Woody Allen

"If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners."

— Johnny Carson

"TV is chewing gum for the eyes."

— Frank Lloyd Wright

"I was the kid next door's imaginary friend."

— Emo Philips

"Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!"

— Steve Martin

"I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives."

— Billy Connolly

"If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents."

— Marcelene Cox

"Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell."

— Robert Byrne

"Never fight an inanimate object."

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

— Brooke Shields

"I think they should have a Barbie with a buzz cut."

— Ellen DeGeneres

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

— Woody Allen

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

— Alanis Morissette

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

— Bette Davis

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

— Samuel Goldwyn

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

— Samuel Butler

"Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive."

— Tim Allen

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

— Bob Hope

"Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car."

— E. B. White

"If you can't tell a spoon from a ladle, then you're fat!"

— Demetri Martin

"If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?"

— Robin Williams

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

— Jay Leno

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

— Henry A. Kissinger

"I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing."

— Johnny Carson

"That's my only goal. Surround myself with funny people, and make sure everyone has a good time and works hard."

— Joe Rogan

"The IRS! They're like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!"

— Jerry Seinfeld

"Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?"

— James Thurber

"If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving."

— Henny Youngman

"The first time I sang in the church choir two hundred people changed their religion."

— Fred Allen

"Polite conversation is rarely either."

— Fran Lebowitz

"If you have a secret, people will sit a little bit closer."

— Rob Corddry

"If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything."

— William Lyon Phelps

"As I get older, I just prefer to knit."

— Tracey Ullman

"If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age."

— George Burns

"I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight."

— Rita Rudner

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

— Josh Billings

"Never floss with a stranger."

— Joan Rivers

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

— Emo Philips

"The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly."

— Demetri Martin

"If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets."

— Mel Brooks

"Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed."

— Josh Billings

"Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas."

— Johnny Carson

"Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object."

— Laurence J. Peter

"To attract men, I wear a perfume called 'New Car Interior."

— Rita Rudner

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

— Marilyn vos Savant

"I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something's wrong with me."

— Elayne Boosler

"I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career."

— Gloria Steinem

"I like marriage. The idea."

— Toni Morrison

"I spent a year in that town, one Sunday."

— George Burns

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

— Mike Myers

"My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?"

— Margaret Smith

"I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own."

— Les Dawson

"Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples."

— George Burns

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

— Dave Barry

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

— Rita Rudner

"Communism is like one big phone company."

— Lenny Bruce

"There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it."

— Dennis Miller

"There's no such thing as soy milk. It's soy juice."

— Lewis Black

"Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder?"

— Don Rickles

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

— Josh Billings

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

— Jay London

"When I go to a bar, I don't go looking for a girl who knows the capital of Maine."

— David Brenner

"I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose."

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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

— Paula Poundstone

"Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself."

— Cathy Guisewite

"I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either."

— Jack Benny

"It is easy for me to love myself, but for ladies to do it is another question altogether."

— Johnny Vegas

"My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe."

— Jimmy Durante

"When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life."

— Richard Lewis

"When the sun comes up, I have morals again."

— Elayne Boosler

"Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of."

— Robert Benchley

"I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from."

— Eddie Izzard

"Progress was all right. Only it went on too long."

— James Thurber

"Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf."

— Lewis Mumford

"The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder."

— Al Gore

"Never put a sock in a toaster."

— Eddie Izzard

"We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast."

— Logan P. Smith

"If I have to lay an egg for my country, I'll do it."

— Bob Hope

"I wish I had the nerve not to tip."

— Paul Lynde

"How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven."

— Spike Milligan

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

— Joe E. Lewis

"I recorded my hair this morning, tonight I'm watching the highlights."

— Jay London

"I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry."

— Norman Wisdom

"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading."

— Logan P. Smith

"I can speak Esperanto like a native."

— Spike Milligan

"Ever notice that Soup for One is eight aisles away from Party Mix?"

— Elayne Boosler

"Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint."

— Don Marquis

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

— Jay London

"Miami Beach is where neon goes to die."

— Lenny Bruce

"Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?"

— Robert Benchley

"The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale."

— Arthur C. Clarke

"I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there."

— Fred Allen

"I cannot sing, dance or act what else would I be but a talk show host."

— David Letterman

"I think serial monogamy says it all."

— Tracey Ullman

"I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back."

— Richard Lewis

"The one thing you shouldn't do is try to tell a cab driver how to get somewhere."

— Jimmy Fallon

"My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra."

— Angie Dickinson

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