Quotes about humor

Relax, enjoy yourself. Have another drink. It’s patriotic to overconsume.

I’ve no objection to morality, except that it’s obsolete.

To have nothing to say and to say it in a tragic manner is not the same thing as having something to say.

Man is an eternal sophomore.

The poet is a god, or, the young poet is a god. The old poet is a tramp.

I do not have the time to give you more than my contempt.

“Something always manages to draw me near the tree that lightning is about to fall upon.”

“Destiny, sir.”

“Rather an accidental social conscience and some right mistake-making, I fear.”

"You fertility deities are worse than Marxists," he said. "You think that's all that goes on between people. We were just friends for a time, but she is too hard on her friends and so loses them."

"Your prayers and your curses come to the same, Lord Yama," commented the ape. "That is to say, nothing."

"It has taken you seventeen incarnations to arrive at this truth?" said Yama. "I can see then why you are still doing time as an ape."

The Buddha, looking imperturbable, returned his attention to the drama. A monk seated nearby noticed he was tapping his fingers on the ground, and he decided that the Enlightened One must be keeping time with the drumbeats, for it was common knowledge that he was above such things as impatience.

Good luck. No gods be with you!

"For a spur of the moment thing, you came up with a fairly engaging sermon."

"Thanks."

"Do you really believe what you preached?"

Sam laughed. "I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I'm a liar."