Humor Quotes by Tom Robbins

“Human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.”

— Tom Robbins

A sense of humor...is superior to any religion so far devised.

— Tom Robbins

“My heart is a Latin American food stall and your love is a health inspector from Zurich.”

— Tom Robbins

Laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.

— Tom Robbins

“Marx Marvelous is going to break the genius machine when he grows up. That's what everyone said. He hasn't, of course.”

— Tom Robbins

Self-esteem is for sissies. Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it. That way…

— Tom Robbins

Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.

— Tom Robbins

“Unless it was about to cause you bodily harm, rot your rhubarb on the stalk, or carry off your children, weather ought…

— Tom Robbins

“Tunnel vision is caused by an optic fungus that multiplies when the brain is less energetic than the ego. It is complicated…

— Tom Robbins

Comedy is deemed inferior to tragedy primarily because of the social prevalence of narcissistic pathology. In other words people who are too…

— Tom Robbins

“The problem starts at the secondary level, not with the originator or developer of the idea but with the people who are…

— Tom Robbins

“She closed her eyes and tried to imagine sex entering the picture. Would sex enter the picture in a silk robe, or…

— Tom Robbins

“Kudra was amused by Alobar's tentative polka until her eyes fell upon the tumescent protrusion dancing with him. Disgusting she thought. An…

— Tom Robbins

“Personally, I prefer Stevie Wonder," confessed the Chink, "but what the hell. Those cowgirls are always bitching because the only radio station…

— Tom Robbins

“The ones who’re so upset about everybody not being the same, about competition, about standards of quality, about art objects having ’auras’…

— Tom Robbins

“Ritual he liked, but compulsory routine he hated. Thus, he resented every minute that he now had to surrender to showering, shampooing,…

— Tom Robbins

From the air, Vatican City looked like a marble Monopoly set. The Church owned all the property from Broadwalk to Illinois Avenue,…

— Tom Robbins

Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to…

— Tom Robbins

“The notion that inspired play (even when audacious, offensive, or obscene) enhances rather than diminishes intellectual vigor and spiritual fulfillment, the notion…

— Tom Robbins

“If a person leads an ‘active’ life, as Wiggs had, if a person has goals, ideals, a cause to fight for, then…

— Tom Robbins

“Are You Ready for New Urban Fragrances? Yeah, I guess I'm ready, but listen: Perfume is a disguise. Since the middle ages,…

— Tom Robbins