Humorists Quotes

Humorists Quote of the day

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

This is not an easy time for humorists because the government is far funnier than we are.

I think that all comics or humorists, or whatever we are, ask questions. That's what we're supposed to do. But I not only ask the questions, I offer solutions.

Great humorists are great insulters.

Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.

Wit is the only wall Between us and the dark.

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.

All great humorists are sad... I cannot help seeing beyond the tinsel of humour, and recognising the pitiful basis of jest - the world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.

I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.

God is a great humorist. He just has a slow audience to work with.

Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration.

If you don't count some of Jehovah's injunctions, there are no humorists in the Bible.

I'm not a comic. I'm a humorist.

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

Think of what would happen to us... if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.

Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden

There are very few humorists who have written first-rate humor after they've become elderly.

Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.

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 a surprise anymore.

The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

This is the big reason most humorists fail. Drunks don't read books.

City wits, country humorists.

I go in for what is known in the trade as 'light writing' and those who do that - humorists they are sometimes called - are looked down upon by the intelligentsia and sneered at.

Neither conservatives nor humorists believe man is good. But left-wingers do.

Lampoon was exactly the opposite. The work was a lot of fun, but the office environment was hell. You cannot put 20 humorists together.

There aren't many political humorists. Dave Barry is excellent, but he doesn't do it much.

A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking.

Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it never in the tongue Of him that makes it.

We are all here for a spell get all the good laughs you can.

Humour is the only test of gravity and gravity of humour for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humour.

The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

If it's sanity you're after There's no recipe like Laughter. Laugh it off.

The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

He that jokes confesses.

There are things of deadly earnest that can only be safely mentioned under cover of a joke.

A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity.

A humorist is a man who feels bad but who feels good about it.

Humour plays close to the big hot fire which is the truth and the reader feels the heat.

Novelist Peter de Vries like Adlai Stevenson and Mark Twain has suffered from the American assumption that anyone with a sense of humour is not to be taken seriously.

Humour can be dissected as a frog can but the thing dies in the process.

Humour is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.