Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny.


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Gimme an S! A T! An O! A C! Followed by a K-H-O-L-M! What's it spell? HEAD FUCK.

- Jane
J.R. WARD
The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER
I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one e...
RACHEL DRATCH
Well, then, Otter, of course I don’t like Bundt cake. It has eggs in it. Baby chicken eggs. You do...
T.J. KLUNE
Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out w...
ANDREW STANTON
I think since I was kid people told me that they thought I was funny.
DEMETRI MARTIN
When you grow up, you gain experience and realise what youre capable of.
FRANCESCO TOTTI
When I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never...
STEVEN WRIGHT
who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody.
J.D. SALINGER
The thing about being a screenwriter, scriptwriter, or scenarist, You get to have multiple personali...
FUNNY, HUMOR, SCREENWRI
It was between people who have different visions of how to lead a Christian life. Some people though...
KRISTA COMER
If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o...
DEYTH BANGER
How do you know they are Hunters?" Lucien asked.
"They had guns and knives strapped to their bo...
GENA SHOWALTER
It shouldn't have mattered, not when Miel and the other girls in his class wore jeans more than they...
ANNA-MARIE MCLEMORE
You are the shuckiest shuck faced shuck in the world!
JAMES DASHNER
That easy, confident grin returned. “Don’t worry, it’s easily forgotten.”
“Well,” ...
RICHELLE MEAD
Happiness does not create humor. There's nothing funny about being happy. Sadness creates humor. Kra...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
Being a superpower is like being a Santa Claus that everyone hates.
JON STEWART
Hooray! Hooray! The end of the world has been postponed!
HERGé
I am who I say I am,
I'm not some fantasy
of how you think you think you know
or who ...
JAMES HOWE
[After being asked what he thinks about people saying the 6th season of Buffy got a little too dark]...
JOSS WHEDON
And the day came out... the mask was removed... and who was behind it?
...
No Face... a pe...
DEYTH BANGER
Ye been oure lord, dooth with youre owene thyngRight as yow list.
CHAUCER
Thats the thing about the Internet. You can put a lot of distance between yourself and the person yo...
ELLEN WRIGHT
Only after the last tree has been cut down,only after the last river has been poisoned,only after th...
THE CREE PEOPLE
Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy an...
ROBERT KLEIN
I made the vote predicated on what I thought was right.
JAMES HANSEN
No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates ...
ROWAN ATKINSON
When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE
Wisdom of the Ages: "Christmas Eve" The last time three wise men were seen in the Middle East.
MATTHEW HEINES
The expression on people's faces, that's how they react, that's what they both thought was funny.
CHARLENE SUMMERS
I have lightning and wind powers," Jason reminded him. "Piper can turn beautiful and charm people in...
RICK RIORDAN
We really wrote what we thought was funny.
BILL LAWRENCE
If youre in an awkward position, feel comfortable enough to walk away.
BEAU MIRCHOFF
To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r...
MANDY HALE
You don't seem to need many qualifications to liaise with Muggles; all they want is an OWL in Muggle...
J.K. ROWLING
When they throw the water on the witch, she says, “Who would have thought a good little girl like ...
JOHN WATERS
Whatever I thought was funny was kept in there. People definitely (got) into it.
ADAM YAUCH
The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.
JIM HARRISON
The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Earl was laughing about it by then. He thought it was funny.
CHRIS BARNES
Whoever thought up the word 'spoon'? Why do they call it spoon? He was always coming up with somethi...
JOE MICUCCI
You know, he would go and look at different funny books because he wanted his character to be differ...
BUBBA SMITH
Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of ...
AL FRANKEN
Trust In Every Words,
And You Will Believe In Your Works.
EIZZA ZAIZALNIZAM
I mean you ACRES of harm,' Dalrymple growled. 'Untold QUANTITIES of harm. I will visit a whole CONTI...
DEREK LANDY
The Prince of Hell shrugged. 'Shit Happens
JANA OLIVER
She blinked. "Hmm? Oh, don't care. What did Anubis look like to you?"
"What did... he looked li...
RICK RIORDAN
Dory: [dreaming] Uhhh... the sea monkeys have my money... yes, I'm a natural blue...
FINDING NEMO
When did you get that?"
"The shirt? At Macy's. Winter sale.
CASSANDRA CLARE
I never thought I was funny, but I enjoy being funny.
NORA DUNN
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES
You will not kill my girlfriend today, International Terrorists of Ambiguous Nationality!
JOHN GREEN
Youre gonna grow up and marry some ice cream! Haha!
JEFF KINNEY
Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER
She was a cute kid, always funny and always fun.
JUDY HOESCHLER
They always loved my sense of humor. There used to be a light switch inside one of the nurseries tha...
CHASE BROOKS
Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully.

Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty sa...
LEWIS CARROLL
He didn't laugh when he thought something was funny--he laughed when he was happy.
RAINBOW ROWELL
It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who cou...
GREGORY MAGUIRE
Lance is a funny kid. He always has something funny to say and always has a quick comeback. I think ...
BARBARA HOUCK
He said that academia reminded him of a badly run circus. The faculty members were like underfed ani...
SUSAN HUBBARD
How do you tell how a man has been funny? How do you do the sound of his voice? The turn of his face...
SHELLEY BERMAN
I was funny in a way that was not dissing the teacher; I was funny just to be funny. A real charmer ...
JASON MANTZOUKAS
She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES
The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN
What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO
We needed a refrigerator for our new place and I've never bought a refrigerator my whole life. I wen...
BRIAN REGAN
My mother was very funny. My dad had a great sense of humor. My grandmother, too.
CAROL BURNETT
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.
Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA
We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
JOHN H. GROBERG
I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ...
HLONIM
They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
JACK KEROUAC
I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my...
JACK KEROUAC
I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi...
CORY DOCTOROW
There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
BILL COSBY
And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss m...
TRENT REZNOR
I planted a kamikaze kiss on Jamie’s cheek.
“FUCK,” he shouted, wiping it off. “What if...
MICHELLE HODKIN
The bulkheads were close together, the ceilings low above their helmets. Not much space in there to ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA
Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
It's funny how different people are. If I'd been this kid and someone was snarling "Ordering a pizza...
JAMES PATTERSON
She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING
In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C.
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER
This is sams phone" there was a long,heavy pause, and then: "oh." Another pause. "Youre the girl, ar...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS
Life is short, and that's why, I don't test people; because we all fail tests sometimes, but that is...
C. JOYBELL C.
'Funny Games' was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel m...
MICHAEL HANEKE
Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi...
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD
When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t...
THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT
At the end of the day, it's all about money.
GARRY KASPAROV
Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past......
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD
He glanced up once, eyes bored. “Please stop talking. I’m trying to eat.
KATE AVERY ELLISON
Dont try to go too fast. Learn your job. Dont ever talk until you know what youre talking about. If ...
SAM RAYBURN
I did. I did see Bigfoot when I was a kid and I still believe it to this day. I saw a big furry man ...
BARRY WATSON
For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not th...
GEORGE A. ROMERO

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Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States an...
GEORGE WILL
I used to do prank calls as these people and try to convince certain hoteliers that I was someone el...
WILL TUDOR
All I know is what I read in the papers.
WILL ROGERS
The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the ...
WILL ROGERS
The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur stron...
GEORGE WILL
America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.
WILL ROGERS
The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best o...
WILL ROGERS
We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.
GEORGE WILL
It is no longer enough to be lusty. One must be a sexual gourmet.
GEORGE WILL
Live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
WILL ROGERS
About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an i...
WILL ROGERS
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
WILL ROGERS
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House an...
WILL ROGERS
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you
WILL ROGERS
There is no argument in the world that carries the hatred that a relioious belief does. The more lea...
WILL ROGERS
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand...
WILL DURANT
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people
WILL ROGERS
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS
There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS
Education is the transmission of civilization.
WILL DURANT
There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS
Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.
WILL DURANT
Regard yourself as a small corporation of one. Take yourself off on team-building exercises (long wa...
WILL SELF
Quinns always come at half price, about half the time, and half-naked, even during the colder half o...
WILL ADVISE
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
WILL ROGERS
Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the th...
WILL SMITH
There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS
I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.
WILL ROGERS
Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
WILL ROGERS
Too many people are buying things they can't afford, with money that they don't have... to impress p...
WILL SMITH
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
WILL ROGERS
Never miss a good chance to shut up.
WILL ROGERS
One must be a lotus to emerge from mucky waters clean.
WILL ADVISE
Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
WILL ROGERS
Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people - the ones who re...
WILL SMITH