Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Mertz

Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.

Arthur Miller

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Art Buchwald

People ask what I am really trying to do with humor. The answer is, "I'm getting even

Art Buchwald

The things that matter most are not things.

Ayn Rand

If you want to feel good, be rational.

Ayn Rand

Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.

Ayn Rand

Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.

Ayn Rand

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

C. S. Lewis

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.

Carol Bartz

I manage through a sense of humor. We all work hard, and work has to be a really interesting, fun place. And that has to start at the top.

Silas Weir Mitchell

I have always found humor in places where humor wasn't necessarily intended.

Carlos Ponce

I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times.

Scott Adams

I get mail; therefore I am.

Shawnee Smith

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

Barry Eisler

Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.

Elizabeth McCracken

You write the way you think about the world. My motto in times of trouble - and I'm speaking of life, not writing - is 'no humor too black.'

Elizabeth McCracken

Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human.

Fatty Arbuckle

I've never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair.

Ian Frazier

With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.

Clifton Fadiman

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

Kin Hubbard

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

Kurt Vonnegut

Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.

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.

Marley Shelton

To me, 'Scream' is a masterpiece on every level - the performances, the humor, the tone - it's just flawless.

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.

Paul Simon

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

Gad Elmaleh

I don't feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor.

David Steinberg

I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.

Laura Schlessinger

If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.

Jerome K. Jerome

Cultivate," I said, "a sense of humor. From a humorous point of view this lunch is rather good.

Tommy Lee Jones

I don't think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd do.