Humorist Quotes · Page 2

“There is no humorist like history.”

— Will Durant

“I hate “fun runs” because, seriously, fuck you.”

— Allison Robicelli

A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking.

— P. J. O'Rourke

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

— James Thurber

“As someone else once said, "Write what you know". Well I know very little, so I write, and illustrate, Nonsense.”

— Paul H Tubb

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

— Will Rogers

God is a great humorist. He just has a slow audience to work with.

— Garrison Keillor

If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist-I feel like countering with the word seriousist.

— Peter De Vries

“I was a lazy reader as a kid. One nutrition label on a box of Cap’n Crunch and I’d have to take…

— M.J. McGuire

“He was a humorist, and everyone knew the funny writers were the most serious sort under their skins.”

— Paula McLain

A humorist has to be taken seriously before he's considered a real writer.

— Art Buchwald

I've never made up events, but I've always been a big exaggerator. It's written on my humorist license that I'm allowed to…

— David Sedaris

Six Secrets to Being a Successful Humorist 1. Be scared, unhappy, and an outcast as a kid. 2. Drop out of high…

— Bruce McCall

Nothing seems too high or low for the humorist; he is above honor, above faith, preserving sense in religion and sanity in…

— Sean O'Casey

“You gave me a dead frog for my birthday! To remind you we all die and end up rotting underground eaten by…

— Soman Chainani

When a comic becomes enamored with his own views and foists them off on the public in a polemic way, he loses…

— Johnny Carson

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance, and the humorist, with a smile and perhaps…

— W. Somerset Maugham

One reason I didn't trust my writing for so long was that I always considered myself a serious dramatic actor. But people…

— Ruby Dee

When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works…

— Mark Twain

Reactionary conservatives are smiling through the racial apocalypse. To them, race baiting is a joke, as 'humorist' Rush Limbaugh will tell you…

— John Ridley

[Al] Franken is left-wing and funny. He's a pretty good political humorist.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“The fool has said in his heart: pass me another Everlasting God-Stopper, please.”

— M.J. McGuire

I consider myself always a humorist. And I think anybody who tells jokes or makes people laugh is humor.

— Dick Gregory

“Like most seasoned phonies, I roundly suspect that everyone is as disingenuous as I am.”

— David Sedaris

To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news.

— David Sedaris

If I get big laughs, I'm a comedian. If I get little laughs, I'm a humorist. If I get no laughs, I'm…

— George Burns

I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.

— Will Cuppy

“More women would be feminists but we spotted the haircuts before we joined”

— Daily Florence

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

— David Sedaris

I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

— David Sedaris

“Behind every humorist who delights in knifing hypocrites is a major self-critic.”

— Wendy Aron

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

— Peter De Vries

“A comedian is better than a politician; at least there is no doubt.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist.

— George Burns

Humor is an escape, because you cannot think about your problems when you are trying to be funny; so, in essence, "being…

— Dave Barry

Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists,…

— Leo Rosten

I learned as a young man that I don't write jokes, but that I can deliver more mundane material and get a…

— Nick Offerman

When the public starts classifying you as thoughtful, someone given to serious issues, you find yourself declassified as a humorist.

— Johnny Carson

“Some days I can fix things others can't. I can find ways to say we can when others say it can't be…

— A. Quintin Smith

A humorist tells himself every morning, "I hope it's going to be a rough day." When things are going well, it's much…

— Alan Coren