Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kurt Vonnegut

The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.

Kurt Vonnegut

When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.

William Shakespeare

But it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which, by often rumination, wraps me in the most humorous sadness.

David Ogilvy

Great marketing only makes a bad product fail faster.

David Ogilvy

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

David Mamet

It's only words... unless they're true.

Dante Alighieri

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

Dan Simmons

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

Billy Graham

A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.

Scott Adams

I get mail; therefore I am.

Shawnee Smith

With any character I play, I gravitate to the juxtaposition and humor.

Clifton Fadiman

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

Richard Lewis

I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing.

Merrick had a sense of humor and could joke about his condition.

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

Victor LaValle

'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.

Vince Vaughn

My sense of humor has served me well,

Milos Forman

Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.

I think superheroes are heroes with flaws, and in their flaws, there is a sense of humor.

Alice Walker

She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show.

Alice James

How fatally the entire want of humor cripples the mind.

D. H. Lawrence

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

Curly Howard

I tried to think but nothing happened!

Clarence Darrow

Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.

Clarence Darrow

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.

Alexander Pope

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Drew Carey

Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now.

Drew Carey

Welcome to 'Who's Line Is It Anyway' the show where everything's made up and the points don't matter. That's right the points are just like Canada.

Drew Barrymore

I love the very exposed, humorous, imperfect, never-trying to-pretend-to-be-perfect journey that I have been on in my life.

Doug Larson

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.

Don Herold

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

Dylan Thomas

A truly comic, invented world must live at the same time as the world we live in.

Douglas Adams

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