Cute Quotes 4

A rich man's joke is always funny.
Thomas Edward Brown

The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
Lenny Bruce 1925-1966, American Comedian

All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.
Lenny Bruce

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.
Carol Burnett American Television Comedian

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.
Dick Clark

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
Charles Caleb Colton 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
Joseph Conrad 1857-1924, Polish-born British Novelist