Quotes on Humor

Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.

The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful.

Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.

Alone of all the races on earth, they seem to be free from the 'Grass is Greener on the other side of the fence' syndrome, and roundly proclaim that Australia is, in fact, the other side of that fence.

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7 of your life.

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

Everyone has a photographic Memory, some just don't have film.

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.

You haven't got a letter on yours," George observed. "I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid-we know we're called Gred and Forge.

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

The secret to humor is surprise.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Y'know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show.