“ Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. ”
- Arnold J. Toynbee- Copy
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“ Writers are a little below the clowns and a little above the trained seals. ”
- John Steinbeck- Copy
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“ I always loved comedy, but I never knew it was something you could learn to do. I always thought that some people are born comedians … just like some people are born dentists. ”
- Paul Reiser- Copy
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“ The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds. ”
- Lenny Bruce- Copy
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“ The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth. ”
- George Jean Nathan- Copy
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“ I didn't plan on being a comedian. I didn't plan on getting married and I didn't plan on having kids, but I did all those things. ”
- Rodney Carrington- Copy
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“ I'm glad Reagan is president. Of course, I'm a professional comedian. ”
- Will Durst- Copy
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“ I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly. ”
- Ian Mckellen- Copy
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“ Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
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“ When I told my friends I was going to be a comedian, they laughed at me. ”
- Carrot Top- Copy
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“ I remain just one thing, and one thing only — and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician. ”
- Charlie Chaplin- Copy
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“ Just because Fate doesn't deal the right cards doesn't mean you should give up… it just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential. ”
- Les Brown- Copy
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“ Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters - not so much above the clatter as part of it. ”
- Saul Bellow- Copy
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“ Aristotle said , , , melancholy men of all others are most witty. ”
- Robert Burton- Copy
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“ Great wits and valours, like great states, Do sometimes sink with their own weights. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have — leisure and a quiet mind. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ The funniest line in English is ''Get it?'' When you say that, everyone chortles. ”
- Garrison Keillor- Copy
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“ Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a "joke.". ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ To be comic is merely to be playful, but wit is a serious matter. To laugh at it is to confess that you do not understand. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Many would live by their Wits, but break for want of Stock. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ As the sea-crab swimmeth always against the stream, so doth wit always against wisdom. ”
- Pythagoras- Copy
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“ Look, he's winding up the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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