About Quote by Terry Jones

“One should never underestimate the role of stupidity in history”

— Ervand Abrahamian

I don't think history is stupid.History ultimately rectifies a lot of these things. If you had to ask me what I think happens in…

— Lance Armstrong

History sometimes makes fun of us and our best intentions.

— Alija Izetbegovic

They laughed much harder than the memory was funny because it felt good to laugh.

— Shannon Hale

I remember a time when it was ok to make fun of politicians and powerful people. Now, it's not ok anymore. We've forgotten how…

— Elif Safak

Humor is so important to the American scene throughout history.

— Bob Newhart

Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those…

— Agnes Repplier

After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.

— Yakov Smirnoff

If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over.

— Isaac Asimov

I believed that old people never laughed. I thought they sighed a lot and groaned. They walked with sticks, and they didn't like children…

— Maeve Binchy

“If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different.”

— Oscar Wilde

That's why our comics are important: they're pointing things out and laughing at the same time. There have been horrible, horrible times in history.…

— Lynne Tillman