Austerity Quote by Ambrose Bierce

“Looking back, retrospectively on the events of that evening, I can see the irony — the shrink whose cat ate his own tail. At…

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

“ The Prologue to TERRITORY LOST "Of cats' first disobedience, and the height Of that forbidden tree whose doom'd ascent Brought man into the…

— Henry N. Beard

“And he began to see his world as an amusing place where ridiculous things happened and where a man or woman could obey all…

— Alaska by James A. Michener

“He seemed to see his fellow creatures grotesquely, and he was angry with them because they were grotesque; life was a confusion of ridiculous,…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“He waved irritably at a waiter. There was a small bar in a dark corner of the room, where an old, wizened bartender stood…

— Ayn Rand

“Humor is the touchstone of the truly mythological as distinct from the more literal-minded and sentimental theological mood.”

— Joseph Campbell

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

— Don Herold

The cat Horus shot out from under the table and headed for the door, his ears flattened and his tail straight out. There he…

— Anonymous

“Had anyone suggested at the time that it would not be the Egypt of the pharaohs that would survive and change the moral landscape…

— Sheila Heti

By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the gravest philosopher.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“His face was still smarter and more spiritual than others, but it rarely laughed, and assumed, one after another, those features which are so…

— Hermann Hesse

“Any punishment was his catnip. The evil fucker was a sadistic freak who preyed on the weak foraging out their flaws like a pig…

— V. Theia