Quotes for Funny

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

Groucho Marx

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

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

W. H. Auden

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

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

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

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

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

Mark Twain

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

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Marilyn Manson

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

Bob Hope

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

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

Milton Berle

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

Isaac Asimov

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

Will Rogers

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.

George Burns

I was born to be funny.

Buddy Hackett