Funny Quotes · Page 4
Laugh out loud with the funniest quotes from comedians, writers, and witty thinkers throughout history. Because sometimes laughter truly is the best medicine.
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“Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.”
“I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.”
“From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere.”
“The matter was too serious for any treatment but a joke, and joking made it more serious still.”
“Of manners gentle, of affections mild; in wit, a man; simplicity, a child.”
“Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.”
“To be comic is merely to be playful, but wit is a serious matter.”
“You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with someone else.”
“Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture.”
“Humor is a delicate shrub, with the passing hectic flush of its time.”
“Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.”
“Foolish people laugh at those readers a century ago who wept over the novels of Dickens.”
“One day I would be a better hand at the game. One day I would learn how to laugh.”
“Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.”