parody quotes

Explore hilarious parodies of popular quotes that will make you laugh out loud in this witty and clever category. Unleash your sense of humor with these amusing twists on familiar words of wisdom.

You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.

- Mel Brooks

Usually, when a lot of men get together, it’s called war.

- Mel Brooks

Tragedy is when I stub my toe. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

- Mel Brooks

The only thing we don’t have a god for is premature ejaculation… but I hear that it’s coming quickly.

- Mel Brooks

Me? Not like the Germans? Why should I not like Germans? Just because they’re arrogant and have fat necks and do anything they’re told so long as it’s cruel, and killed millions of Jews in concentration camps and made soap out of their bodies and lamp shades out of their skins? Is that any reason to hate their fucking guts?

- Mel Brooks

Look, I really don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive, you’ve got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts should be noisy, colorful and lively.

- Mel Brooks

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

- Mel Brooks

If presidents don’t do it to their wives, they do it to the country.

- Mel Brooks

If God had intended us to fly, He would have sent us tickets.

- Mel Brooks

If Einstein and Shaw couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

- Mel Brooks

I’ve been accused of vulgarity. I say that’s bullshit.

- Mel Brooks

I love mathematics! Add a bed, subtract our clothes, divide our legs, and multiply!

- Mel Brooks

Hope for the best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We’re unrehearsed.

- Mel Brooks

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

- Mel Brooks

You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.

- Mel Brooks

There’s a perfectly good explanation for this, which I’ll make up later.

- Mel Brooks

I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible... and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.

- Victor Borge

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

- Allan Sherman

Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.

- Allan Sherman

Even if Scrabble had been invented then, I wouldn't have wanted to play Scrabble, because the highest triple word score in the world would not have expressed how much I liked the game Natalie and I played every afternoon.

- Allan Sherman