Humorist Quotes

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Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. — Ambrose Bierce
HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes,… — Ambrose Bierce
I remember what J. Golden Kimball said when he came down to the stake where I was presiding. I introduced him as the 'Will Rogers'… — Hugh B. Brown
Today the outlandish becomes routine overnight. The humorist is trying to say that it's still outlandish. — William Zinsser
In this land of unlimited opportunity, a place where, to paraphrase Woody Allen, any man or woman can realize greatness as a patient or as… — Vincent Canby
I did not intend to write a funny book, at first. I did not know I was a humorist. I have never been sure about… — Jerome K. Jerome
How will I be remembered? As a technician or artist? As a humorist or a visionary? — Norman Rockwell
A heartwarming tale of Christmas past that's chock full of all the wit and hilarity we admire in America's favorite humorist--Mark Twain. Carlo DeVito brings… — Gilbert King
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 a singer. — George Burns
The American humorist sat on his couch suffering thoughts of her, trying to figure out how to win back her affections, wondering what had happened… — Richard Brautigan
Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not… — Garrison Keillor
Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this… — Thomas Carlyle
If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist-I feel like countering with the word seriousist. — Peter De Vries
The humorist has a good eye for the humbug; he does not always recognize the saint. — W. Somerset Maugham
A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking. — P.J. O'Rourke
Nothing seems too high or low for the humorist; he is above honor, above faith, preserving sense in religion and sanity in life. — Sean O'Casey
The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we ought to try… — Mark Twain
It was a strange man, a kind of black humorist, a true philosopher. One day he said: "If my books could ensure an increase in… — William C. Brown
HOMÅ’OPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession. — Ambrose Bierce
ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an… — Ambrose Bierce

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