Ability Quote by Desi Arnaz

When I go to Europe or South America, they laugh at things that are totally different than what Americans would laugh at. It's just…

— Mike Tyson

An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can't risk anybody…

— Pearl S. Buck

The ability for us to laugh at ourselves is Britain's saving grace.

— Martin Parr

I have a country-boy sense of humor. I come from a poor family, and I have no education. But I am Middle America, and…

— Hal Needham

Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.

— Michel de Montaigne

Every American, to the last man, lays claim to a "sense" of humor and guards it as his most significant spiritual trait, yet rejects…

— E. B. White

Yeah, it constantly feels like you're constantly checking if you're funny enough, because I think this country's naturally funny. I think the sort of…

— Lucy Beaumont

George Washington didn't have to make us laugh; he just had to establish precedents and avoid chopping down more cherry trees than he could…

— Alexandra Petri

The American public highly overrates its sense of humor. We're great belly laughers and prat fallers, but we never really did have a real…

— Bill Mauldin

Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor.

— Herb Caen

It's so clear cut with a comedian - you have that reflex action, whereby you laugh or you don't. And so you either love…

— Jimmy Carr

George W. Bush has dutifully, if not intentionally, provided Americans with laughs for nearly a decade. He has also made them cry, sometimes for…

— Alexandra Petri