Humorist Quotes

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you. (Will Rogers)
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature. View quote
James Thurber
You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one. View quote
Will Rogers
Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this country is his saying,imported by Madame de Stal, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics,'Providence has given to the French the empire of the land to the English that of the sea to the Germans that ofthe air' Richter German humorist prose writer. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist. View quote
George Burns
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance, and the humorist, with a smile and perhaps a sigh, is more likely to shrug his shoulders than to condemn. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance. View quote
Peter De Vries
Nothing seems too high or low for the humorist; he is above honor, above faith, preserving sense in religion and sanity in life. View quote
Sean O`Casey
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself. View quote
James Thurber
One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly." ~ (1919-), American writer, producer, humorist. View quote
Andy Rooney
Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore. (Garrison Keillor)
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart. View quote
Will Cuppy
No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it. View quote
Don Herold
To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news. View quote
David Sedaris
But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter. View quote
David Sedaris
I'm not a comic. I'm a humorist. View quote
Dick Gregory
PANTALOONS, n. A nether habiliment of the adult civilized male. The garment is tubular and unprovided with hinges at the points of flexion. Supposed to have been invented by a humorist. Called 'trousers' by the enlightened and 'pants' by the unworthy. (Ambrose Bierce)
HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
HOMOEOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
In my more pompous moments I like to think of myself as a writer rather than a humorist, but I suppose that's merely the vanity of advancing age. View quote
S. J. Perelman
Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers. View quote
Leo Rosten