Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist. — George Burns Copy Share Image
This is the big reason most humorists fail. Drunks don't read books. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working. — Peter Sellers Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for… — Danny Thomas Copy Share Image
“Humorists are precisely the kinds of guys who can cut through the orgy of petty indignation that the aging baby boomers are… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
I go in for what is known in the trade as 'light writing' and those who do that - humorists they are… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Lampoon was exactly the opposite. The work was a lot of fun, but the office environment was hell. You cannot put 20… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I think that all comics or humorists, or whatever we are, ask questions. That's what we're supposed to do. But I not… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I don't want to be classed as a humorist. It makes me feel guilty. I've never read a good tough quotable female… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The key, I would say to any fledgling humorist starting out, is to make sure that sloppiness is part of your recipe.… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I remember what J. Golden Kimball said when he came down to the stake where I was presiding. I introduced him as… — Hugh B. Brown Copy Share Image
It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and Congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that… — Thomas Carlyle 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
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
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
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
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
