Here is a great list of famous short funny quotes and sayings.
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever. – Mark Twain
Isn’t it sad how some people can’t be funny, so they have to settle for being obnoxious? – Source Unknown
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. – Peter Ustinov
If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her. – Nicol Williamson
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. – W. H. Auden
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him. – Napoleon Bonaparte
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. – Edward De Bono
Humor is something that thrives between man’s aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth. – Victor Borge
Humor is just another defense against the universe. – Mel Brooks
A rich man’s joke is always funny. – Thomas Edward Brown
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law. – Dick Clark
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling. – Fredrich
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. – Mahatma Gandhi
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man’s superiority to all that befalls him. – Roman Gary
I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice. – Samuel Johnson
WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness. – Ellie Katz
One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit. – Jean De La Bruyere
Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore. – Malcolm Muggeridge
Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude. – Frank Muir
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor. – Lord Nelson
There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke. – J. J. Procter
One never needs their humor as much a when they argue with a fool. – Chinese Proverb
The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh – Carl Reiner
Musical comedies aren’t written, they are rewritten. – Stephen Sondheim
A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball. – Lionel Strachey
You go for it. All the stops are out. Caution is to the wind, and you’re battling with everything you have. That’s the real fun of the game. – Dan Dierdorf
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. – Kahlil Gibran
People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any act of Parliament. – A. P. Herbert
Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better. – George Santayana
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. – Dale Carnegie
She concedes that she’s the one she pleases. – Kim Carnes
Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh, instead of exhausting, the system; such as recur frequently, rather than continue long; such as send us back to our daily duties invigorated in body and spirit; such as we can partake of in the presence and society of respectable friends; such as consist with and are favorable to a grateful piety; such as are chastened by self-respect, and are accompanied with the consciousness that life has a higher end than to be amused. – William Ellery Channing