Top 25 Humour Quotes of 115

All humor is rooted in pain.

Richard Pryor

Pain, Humour, Rooted

What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again

Anne Frank

Done, Humour, Happenings

Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.148, GENERAL PRESS

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

Stanley Kubrick

History, Political, Humour

In Guardian 5 June 1963

We haven't got a plan so nothing can go wrong!

Spike Milligan

Humour, Plans, Miscellaneous

There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.

Rufus Wainwright

Wonderful, Moments, Humour

Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.

Sarah Kane

Humanity, Life Is, Humour

Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.

Cyndi Lauper

Messages, Serious, Humour

Cling tight to your sense of humour. You will need it every day.

T. E. Lawrence

Needs, Humour

T. E. Lawrence (2015). “The Collected Works of Lawrence of Arabia (Unabridged): Seven Pillars of Wisdom + The Mint + The Evolution of a Revolt + Complete Letters (Including Translations of The Odyssey and The Forest Giant)”, p.1260, e-artnow

Goodnight, thank you, and may your God go with you.

Dave Allen

May, Humour

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

I love a girl with a good sense of humour, who is confident but who has a sweetness to her - that melts my heart.

Gerard Butler

Girl, Heart, Humour

One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.

Thomas Jefferson

History, Historical, Humour

You should laugh everywhere you can find even the slightest glimmer of humour.

Doug Stanhope

Laughing, Should, Humour

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you open to my ideas

John Cleese

Ideas, Laughing, Humour

I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.

Sacha Baron Cohen

Thinking, Humour, Persecution

"'I dressed as Borat and Ali G fans had no idea it was me': Sacha Baron Cohen on enjoying his anonymity" by Rob Bleaney, www.mirror.co.uk. May 18, 2012.

The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can prove anything from it.

Robert A. Heinlein

Humour, Prove, Collections

"The Number of the Beast". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, Chapter XXXVIII, p. 377, 1980.

HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous.

Alice Walker

Heart, Laughing, Humour

Alice Walker (1990). “The Temple of My Familiar”

The best thing about humour is that it shows people they are not alone.

Sid Caesar

Witty, People, Humour

I certainly don't see the humour in my work as something that detracts from its seriousness. It's just a way of making difficult messages more palatable.

Patricia Piccinini

Way, Messages, Humour

"Interview with Patricia Piccinini and Peter Hennessey". Interview With Daniel Palmer, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2001.