Clown Quote by Carl Sagan

“Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them; for he was wise enough to…

— Charles Dickens

“In a theater, it happened that a fire started offstage. The clown came out to tell the audience. They thought it was a joke…

— Anonymous

Oh, my dear Kepler, how I wish that we could have one hearty laugh together. Here, at Padua, is the principal professor of philosophy,…

— Galileo Galilei

“Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them”

— Harper Lee

Though the clown is often deadpan, he is a connoisseur of laughter.

— Mel Gussow

“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

I remember one time when all the nuns in my Catholic grade school got around in a semicircle, me and Mom in the middle,…

— Chris Farley

There was laughter in the back of the theater, leading to the belief that someone was telling jokes back there.

— George S. Kaufman

“And why does he talk so funny? Doesn't he mean squashed tomatoes? I don't think that they had tomatoes when he comes from, said…

— Neil Gaiman

“Laurent recalled his conversations with Pascal on their parents’ phones when they had been at the lycée together. If there was one thing that…

— Antoine Laurain

No clowns were funny. That was the whole purpose of a clown. People laughed at clowns, but only out of nervousness. The point of…

— Terry Pratchett

One day he said, "I'll tell this town How it feels to be an unfunny clown." And he told them all why he looked…

— Shel Silverstein