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Dreams like a podcast,Downloading truth in my ears.They tell me cool stuff.""Apollo?" I guess, because I figured nobody else could make a haiku that bad.He put his finger to his lips. "I'm incognito. Call me Fred.""A god named Fred?

— Rick Riordan
Humor

Jesper knocked his head against the hull and cast his eyes heavenward. “Fine. But if Pekka Rollins kills us all, I’m going to get Wylan’s ghost to teach my ghost how to play the flute just so that I can annoy the hell out of your ghost.�Brekker’s lips quirked. “I’ll just hire Matthias’ ghost to kick your ghost’s ass.�“My ghost won’t associate with your ghost,� Matthias said primly, and then wondered if the sea air was rotting his brain.

— Leigh Bardugo
Humor

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

— Dorothy Parker
Humor Faith & Religion

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

— Robert Orben
Truth Humor Society & Politics

From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!

— Dr. Seuss
Humor

Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.

— Christopher Paolini
Humor

DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.

— Terry Pratchett
Humor Death & Loss

I thought I'd lie on the floor and writhe in pain for a while," he grunted, "It relaxes me.""It does? Oh - you're being sarcastic. That's a good sign probably.

— Cassandra Clare
Humor

It's not gray," Clary felt compelled to point out. "It's green.""If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood," said Jace.

— Cassandra Clare
Humor

I don't want tea," said Clary, with muffled force. "I want to find my mother. And then I want to find out who took her in the first place, and I want to kill them.""Unfortunately," said Hodge, "we're all out of bitter revenge at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing.

— Cassandra Clare
Humor

The real story of the Fleece: there were these two children of Zeus, Cadmus and Europa, okay? They were about to get offered up as human sacrifices, when they prayed to Zeus to save them. So Zeus sent this magical flying ram with golden wool, which picked them up in Greece and carried them all the way to Colchis in Asia Minor. Well, actually it carried Cadmus. Europa fell off and died along the way, but that's not important.""It was probably important to her.

— Rick Riordan
Humor

I'm not going to wear a red dress," she said."It would look stunning, My Lady," she called.She spoke to the bubbles gathered on the surface of the water. "If there's anyone I wish to stun at dinner, I'll hit him in the face.

— Kristin Cashore
Humor

Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.

— Bill Watterson
Humor

From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

— Groucho Marx
Humor Books & Writing

Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.

— J.K. Rowling
Humor

World quotes adapted from the Abirate/english_quotes dataset (CC BY 4.0). Indian-figure and Hindi/Urdu quotes are a curated compilation of widely-attributed public sayings.