“ I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3K
“ There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature — the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick. ”
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun. ”
- Flip Wilson- Copy
- 1.2K
“ The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote another's wit. ”
- Christian Nestell Bovee- Copy
- 390
“ Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you. ”
- Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree- Copy
- 2.6K
“ There are many humorous things in the world, among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
- 2.5K
“ The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
- 2.7K
“ 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
- 2.6K
“ When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours. That's relativity. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.4K
“ It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Thou art so witty, profligate and thin, At once we think thee Satan, Death and Sin. ”
- Edward Young- Copy
- 750
“ My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 155
“ Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole! ”
- Mclandburgh Wilson- Copy
- 90
“ Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave. ”
- Quentin Crisp- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society. ”
- William Makepeace Thackeray- Copy
- 847
“ Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors. ”
- John Major- Copy
- 604
“ There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory. ”
- Mario Cuomo- Copy
- 158
“ It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time. ”
- Honore de Balzac- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Every witticism is an inexact thought; that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty. ”
- Walter Savage Landor- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Vaudeville, whatever its asininity, was at least to be taken casually and the worse it was the more jocular it seemed to fellows who didn't mind throwing away a dollar. ”
- George Jean Nathan- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 2.5K
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