Funny Quotes

Funny quotes are very similar to jokes in that they generally have some type of irony, whether the speaker intended the humor or not. For example, it is popular to quote politicians that unintentionally make a joke, or their lack of understanding is funny to listeners itself.

Funny quotes are also used within particular professions as a way for members of the same profession to communicate some of the joys and frustrations of their type of profession. Some of the most popular professions with their own set of well known funny quotes include business transactions in general, lawyers, doctors and financially-related funny quotes.

Here are some prime examples of doctor and medicine related funny quotes:

“A woman went to a plastic surgeon and asked him to make her look like Bo Derek. He gave her a lobotomy.” –Joan Rivers

“My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn’t pay the bill he gave me six months more.” -Walter Matthau

“First the doctor gave me some good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.” -Steve Martin

And who doesn’t like a good law or lawyer funny quote:

“The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.” -Charles Dickens

“Only lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt from jury duty.” -George Bernard Shaw

“A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.” -Benjamin Franklin

Funny quotes are different from jokes in that they are usually said by a celebrity of some sort, and so are taken as being somewhat more funny because they were said by a ‘real person’ instead of coming from some bank of anonymous jokes. Of course some of the best funny quotes are anonymous or cannot be attributed to their rightful initiators.

Also, funny quotes differ from traditional jokes in that there doesn’t need to be two distinct portions, as in setup and punchline, for a funny quote. Generally, funny quotes will have some amount of implication surrounding the topic or topics that are being discussed. The funniest quotes are unintentional in the sense that oftentimes someone is trying to give a thoughtful response or answer to a question, and does not intend for their perspective to be humorous. Or perhaps they intend the comment as being facetious, and others that have similar opinions will think it is outright funny.

Politicians are fond of quoting famous funny lines by other public figures. Along with self-deprecating types of jokes, politicians seem to enjoy making use of other politicians jokes and funny quotes. This also seems to give the impression that the politician speaking is drawing on the wisdom of our forefathers, when funny quotes of past presidents and other government people are stated.

If you would like to find more examples of funny quotes, you should definitely do a search of the internet in order to find the type of funny quotes you are looking for. Since the advent of the internet, researching such things is as simple as typing in your search query to a major internet search engine. Be sure to include any particulars if you are looking for certain types of funny quotes. For example, if you are looking for politics-related funny quotes, be sure to include some search terms that are related to this topic.

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