Humorous Sayings

462 sayings found from 462 authors

There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.

— Frantz Fanon 1952-1961 (approximate, during his active writing period)
Self-Deprecating

I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result.

— Edward Said 1999
Self-Deprecating

I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.

— Jacques Derrida 1970s-1990s (approximate)
General

Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots.

— Slavoj Zizek 2012
General

I'm a jazzman in the life of the mind. I'm a bluesman in the world of ideas. I'm a participant.

— Cornel West 2014
Life & Aging

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2010
General

I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God.

— Kabir 15th Century
Life & Aging

The minnows swim about so freely, following the openings wherever they take them. Such is the happiness of fish.

— Zhuangzi 4th Century BCE
General

I am sick when I do look on thee.

— William Shakespeare c. 1595-1596
Self-Deprecating

But among the blessed immortals uncontrollable laughter went up as they saw Hephaestos bustling about the palace.

— Homer c. 8th-7th century BC
General

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

— Mark Twain 1897
General

If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

— Edgar Allan Poe 1840s (approximate)
General

I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life's essential absurdity.

— Stephen King Unknown, widely attributed
General

I want to tell you something but good taste. Restrains me.

— Sappho c. 630-570 BC (original composition)
General

The world is like a great empty dream. Why should one toil away one's life?

— Li Bai c. 701-762 AD (original composition)
Food & Drink

At the grand vermillion gates, wine and meat spoils, while the road outside is paved with frozen bones.

— Du Fu c. 755 AD (approximate)
Food & Drink

Foolish indeed are those who trust to fortune.

— Murasaki Shikibu c. 1008-1021 AD (original composition)
General

I can't trust those who sneer at us drinking down to the lees: That is the kind of thing which gets a bad name for religion.

— Hafez c. 1325-1390 AD (original composition)
Food & Drink

Full weel she soong the service dyvyne, Entuned in hir nose ful semely.

— Geoffrey Chaucer c. 1387-1400
General

His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command.

— John Milton 1642
General
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