Emmett Kelly Quotes

#1. By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life.

Emmett Kelly

#2. Sometimes luck belongs to children and madmen.

Robin Hobb

#3. I curse you! I curse you both. May you crave all that is sugary until the fates have aligned your true heart!

A.R. Von

#4. I couldn't stay away from her.

Kenya Wright

#5. 'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further.

Emmett Kelly

#6. Apparently I wasn't in the mood to listen to myself.

Obert Skye

#7. Shane: so is world war fifteen over out there?
claire:i think so

Rachel Caine

#8. Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know.

Emmett Kelly

#9. Just the other day I witnessed a disagreement between a waiter and a customer over whether the coffee he served her was a cappuccino or a latte.

Gloria Furman

#10. I haven't had a stationary home since going with the circus, but since my parents lived in Lafayette about 25 years ago and my sister lives here now, I always claim it as home.

Emmett Kelly

#11. You never know," Jack said speculatively. "There may come a time when savages like William Hamleigh aren't in power; when the laws protect the ordinary people instead of enslaving them; when the king makes peace instead of war. Think of that - a time when towns in England don't need walls!

Ken Follett

#12. A clown's makeup and character, that's all he has to sell. He loves and believes in that character.

Emmett Kelly

#13. I am a self-made brat.

Steve Wynn

#14. A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas, Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky - I've thought of all by turns, and still I lie Sleepless ...

William Wordsworth