1,564 quotes found
“Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.”
“Humour is just another defence against the universe.”
“The great humorist forgets himself in his delighted contemplation of other people.”
“The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.”
“He who laughs lasts.”
“We are all here for a spell get all the good laughs you can.”
“No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.”
“One loses so many laughs by not laughing at oneself.”
“You can pretend to be serious but you can't pretend to be witty.”
“Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman onl...”
“The love of truth lies at the root of much humour.”
“It's August, which means Congress is on recess and Mitch McConnell has shimmied back into the ocean to seek a mate.”
“Do you hate people?â€�“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
“Do you know what I think about crying? I think some people have to learn to do it. But once you learn, once you know how to really cry, there's nothing quite like it. I feel sorry for those who don...”
“The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith.”
“Always blow your own trumpet, blowing someone else’s is unhygienic”
“He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.’‘A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth,’ said the Savage promptly.‘Quite so…”
“Weather is a purely personal matter. There is no such thing as a climate that is cold or hot, good or bad, healthy or unhealthy. People take it upon themselves to create a fantasy in their imaginat...”
“Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.”
