Quotes for Funny

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

Groucho Marx

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

W. H. Auden

Vicodin, I got addicted to that little pill. The reason I don't talk about it too much in the press is because it isn't funny, and I love to be funny in interviews. If you joke about that period in your life, it doesn't seem right.

Matthew Perry

I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

Groucho Marx

Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things. Funny ironing board covers - I hate them.

Daniel Radcliffe

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

Mark Twain

How can you analyse what is funny? What's funny to one isn't funny to another... What's funny to you is a personal thing.

Les Dawson

In general, the straight line of a joke sets up a premise, an expectation. Then the funny ending - the punch line - in a sense contradicts the original assumption by refusing to follow what had seemed a reasonable train of thought. Many jokes involve that simple matter of leaping outside what had appeared to be the rules of the game at the moment.

Steve Allen

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

Jim Carrey

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Albert Einstein

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

Elbert Hubbard

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Bob Hope

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

Will Rogers

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.

Milton Berle

I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.

Marilyn Manson

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

Isaac Asimov

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.

George Burns

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

George Orwell

When I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never, like, 'Oh, wow. I could say this some day on stage.'

Steven Wright