Factual Quote by P. J. O'Rourke Download Open image “Humor is, by its nature, more truthful than factual.” — P. J. O'Rourke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Factual Funny Humor Nature Truth Truthful
Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see,… — Victor Borge Copy Share Image
Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Humor is just making fun of a situation. But humor is what gets people through a lot of things. — Nate Bargatze Copy Share Image
Humour has to have a huge nugget of truth to be funny. You cannot laugh at something unbelievable. Whenever I say something on a… — Twinkle Khanna Copy Share Image
Humor is essential to a full and happy life. It is a reliever and relaxer of pressure and tension, and the saving element in… — Richard L. Evans Copy Share Image
Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The Democrats said, "We don't know what's wrong with America, but we can fix it." The Republicans said, "There's nothing wrong with America, and… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
At Epcot Center the Disney corporation has focused its attention on two things greatly in need of Disneyfication: the tedious future and the annoying… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
My whole family can talk. They are all car salesmen. They are all funny. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It was Ronald Reagan who used to say that the 10 most frightening words in the English language are, "I'm from the federal government,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Gun violence has cost us too many political leaders, and hardly ever the worst ones. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Journalists are notoriously easy to kid. All you have to do is speak to a journalist in a very serious tone of voice, and… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain… — Glenway Wescott Copy Share Image
For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that is precisely… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
To claim that science and religion pose different questions to the world is not to suggest that if the bones of Jesus were discovered… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history. — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species'… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
... in a capitalist society a man is expected to be an aggressive, uncompromising, factual, lusty, intelligent provider of goods,and the woman, a retiring,… — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter. — Carl Gustav Hempel Copy Share Image
“Advocacy groups in the USA, as in other countries, may not be able to silence this hateful, cowardly and deceitful attack upon people’s humanity… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
A popular feel for scientific endeavors should, if possible, be restored given the needs of the twenty-first century. This does not mean that every… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - bearing on the… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
There really is no foolproof or even optimal way of dealing with White House emissaries who tell whoppers on live television. On the one… — Erik Wemple Copy Share Image
