"Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously.……" — Erma Bombeck

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• I think that all comics or humorists, or whatever we are, ask questions. That's what we're supposed to do. But… — Roseanne Barr
• Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. — Ambrose Bierce
• Neither conservatives nor humorists believe man is good. But left-wingers do. — P.J. O'Rourke
• The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to… — John Updike
• There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists. — Cullen Hightower
• HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss… — Ambrose Bierce
• I remember what J. Golden Kimball said when he came down to the stake where I was presiding. I introduced… — 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… — Vincent Canby
• I did not intend to write a funny book, at first. I did not know I was a humorist. I… — Jerome K. Jerome
• How will I be remembered? As a technician or artist? As a humorist or a visionary? — Norman Rockwell
• I go in for what is known in the trade as 'light writing' and those who do that - humorists… — P.G. Wodehouse

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