Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Hoffer

Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.

Henry Ford

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

P. J. O'Rourke

West Germans are tall, pink, pert and orthodontically corrected, with hands, teeth and hair as clean as their clothes and clothes as sharp as their looks. Except for the fact that they all speak English pretty well, they're indistinguishable from Americans.

Phil Keoghan

People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it's a sense of humor. If you've got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive.

Lana Turner

Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.

John Ratzenberger

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.

John Ratzenberger

Calvin: I'm a genius, but I'm a misunderstood genius. Hobbes: What's misunderstood about you? Calvin: Nobody thinks I'm a genius. Corfu? It's just a poor man's Pensacola...

James Joyce

An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.

James Goldsmith

Gossip columnists are diseases, like 'flu. Everyone is subject to them.

Laurence Sterne

It is not in the power of every one to taste humor, however he may wish it; it is the gift of God! and a true feeler always brings half the entertainment along with him.

Larry Gelbart

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

Shawn Wayans

We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross.

Nicolas Chamfort

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

Ronald Knox

The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.

The ultimate test of whether you posses a sense of humor is your reaction when someone tells you you don't.

Peter Drucker

Do what you do best, and outsource the rest.

Peggy Noonan

Humor is the shock absorber of life; it helps us take the blows.

Peg Bracken

People will admit to arson and mayhem sooner than no sense of humor.

May Sarton

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

Max Eastman

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

Henry Ward Beecher

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.

Terence

As a person is so must you humor them.

Ridley Scott

Sometimes I find I'm wearing a divided, split brain in terms of drama and humor.

There's a lot of humor and satire in that one.

Ronald Reagan

I think we should keep the grain and export the farmers.

Ronald Reagan

[Andrew Jackson] was actually 70 years old when he left the White House

Ronald Reagan

Well, I would - if they realized that we - again if - if we led them back to that stalemate only because our retaliatory power, our seconds, or strike at them after our first strike, would be so destructive they they couldn't afford it, that would hold them off.

Ronald Reagan

Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees.

Sam Levenson

The American success formula is first to get a home of your own, then to get a car of your own so you don't have to stay in that home of your own.