The humorist has a good eye for the humbug; he does not always recognize the saint. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I find a duck's opinion of me is very much influenced by whether or not I have bread. — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
There aren't many political humorists. Dave Barry is excellent, but he doesn't do it much. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
If you don't count some of Jehovah's injunctions, there are no humorists in the Bible. — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
There are very few humorists who have written first-rate humor after they've become elderly. — Richard Armour Copy Share Image
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record — Tom Masson Copy Share Image
It was a strange man, a kind of black humorist, a true philosopher. One day he said: "If my books could ensure… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I am a comedian but it's usually not a compliment to be called a prop comedian but I guess I sometimes use… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
All great humorists are sad... I cannot help seeing beyond the tinsel of humour, and recognising the pitiful basis of jest -… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Steven Alan Green is ONE funny writer ---- Everything I read of yours makes me laugh and think - Not just the… — Taylor Negron Copy Share Image
I did not intend to write a funny book, at first. I did not know I was a humorist. I have never… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know); next I was a realist; now… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I've always been leery of comical artists because I think oftentimes they're hiding the fact that they're not that talented. For example,… — Diego Cortez Copy Share Image
“Expand Your Repertoire . . . Professional humorists and comedians, like Jeanie Robertson, maintain joke files filled with assorted topics, anecdotes, and… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
As the tragic writer rids us of what is petty and ignoble in our nature, so also the humorist rids us of… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Professional humorists and cartoonists have to go through a stage in which they have to kill their own internal editor just so… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
Humorists are not humorous twenty-four hours a day. In fact, when you get to know them well, they are often not humorous… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
The audience is invisible and that's good. Somewhere my voice is drifting through a swine barn and the sound of it seems… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it or you don't.… — Heinrich Böll Copy Share Image
Bisexuality doubles your chances of a date on a Saturday night. I believe that sex is a beautiful thing between two people.… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Few, as I have said, are the humorists who can induce this state. To master and dissolve us, to give us the… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
Back when the Bible was written, then edited, then rewritten, then rewritten, then re-edited, then translated from dead languages, then re-translated, then… — David Cross Copy Share Image
Bob Wallace was my editor at Rolling Stone when I first started writing there, and he's a wonderful editor. I was in… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
And as Craig Brown - he's an English humorist, not a comedian but he's just a writer and humorist - I'm quite… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
