Quotes About Humorists

#1. The 'absurdities' of life can either turn you into a 'philosopher' or a 'humorist'..
Both 'opposing' poles of the same scale, a matter of understanding..
Ideal, if we can slide down the scale this way and that...
Read somewhere..Philosophers get heard, Humorists get paid..

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#2. Great humorists are great insulters.

Dick Cavett

#3. Cher wanted to be an entertainer more than I've seen anybody want to be an entertainer in my life.

Sonny Bono

#4. Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration.

Mark Twain

#5. God is a great humorist. He just has a slow audience to work with.

Garrison Keillor

#6. There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.

Cullen Hightower

#7. The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't - whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

John Updike

#8. I think that all comics or humorists, or whatever we are, ask questions. That's what we're supposed to do. But I not only ask the questions, I offer solutions.

Roseanne Barr

#9. I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.

Will Cuppy

#10. In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development.

Paul Kagame

#11. Humorists are not humorous twenty-four hours a day. In fact, when you get to know them well, they are often not humorous at all. They tend to be hypersensitive, taut, neurotic creatures driven by God know what obscure compulsion to earn their living the hard way.

Margaret Halsey

#12. I auditioned for 'Cats' - I didn't sing but I was able to cough up a hairball.

Stephanie Miller

#13. I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

David Sedaris

#14. Humorists are precisely the kinds of guys who can cut through the orgy of petty indignation that the aging baby boomers are imposing on this great country.

David Brin

#15. There are very few humorists who have written first-rate humor after they've become elderly.

Richard Armour

#16. An ounce of logic can be worth more than a ton of tradition that has become obsolete through the weathering of time.

Ed Parker

#17. This is the big reason most humorists fail. Drunks don't read books.

Garrison Keillor

#18. Neither conservatives nor humorists believe man is good. But left-wingers do.

P. J. O'Rourke

#19. Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley and James Thurber, screenwriters like Ben Hecht and William Goldman, and journalists/columnists like H.L. Mencken, Mike Royko and Molly Ivins.

John Scalzi

#20. To call such persons "humorists", a loose-fitting and ugly word, is to miss the nature of their dilemma and the dilemma of their nature.

James Thurber

#21. Think of what would happen to us ... if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.

Thomas Lansing Masson

#22. It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and Congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the burden. Meantime, I seem to have been drifting into criticism myself. But that is nothing. At the worst, criticism is nothing more than a crime, and I am not unused to that.

Mark Twain

#23. Humorists are using Twitter to tell jokes in an interesting way. It doesn't have to be profound, and it doesn't have to be earth-shaking, but it is transformative.

James Gleick

#24. Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings.

Nancy Kress

#25. This is not an easy time for humorists because the government is far funnier than we are.

Art Buchwald

#26. If you don't count some of Jehovah's injunctions, there are no humorists in the Bible.

Mordecai Richler

#27. Professional humorists and cartoonists have to go through a stage in which they have to kill their own internal editor just so they can get stuff out. So whether they believe it or not, they need me on the other end to do that editing for them.

Robert Mankoff

#28. Even the contemplative life is only an effort, Nora my dear, to hide the body so the feet won't stick out.

Djuna Barnes

#29. Humorists always sit at the children's table.

Woody Allen

#30. I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.

Peter Sellers

#31. Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.

Erma Bombeck

#32. We're a very close family and we're a very real family, and I think every real family has real problems.

Emilio Estevez

#33. I have to drink a lot of fluids, try not to dehydrate, and keep stretching.

Johan Santana

#34. Be comforted, small one, in your smallness. He lays no merit on you. Receive and be glad.

C.S. Lewis

#35. Six Secrets to Being a Successful Humorist 1. Be scared, unhappy, and an outcast as a kid. 2. Drop out of high school. 3. Spend time alone. 4. Don't take a comedy course. 5. Read other humorists but don't worship them. 6. Don't get your hopes up.

Bruce McCall

#36. The great thing about remote or dead masters is that they can't refuse you as an apprentice. You can learn whatever you want from them. They left their lesson plans in their work.

Austin Kleon

#37. I go in for what is known in the trade as 'light writing' and those who do that - humorists they are sometimes called - are looked down upon by the intelligentsia and sneered at.

P.G. Wodehouse

#38. Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.

Christina Stead