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Humor Quotes - Page 118

Wit is cultured insolence.

Aristotle (1959). “Aristotle, with an English Translation: The "Art" of Rhetoric”

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

Angela Carter (2012). “Wise Children”, p.213, Random House

Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.

Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.28, Broadway Books

Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.

"Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

I call my balls the bush twins.

"Zach Galifianakis Live at the Purple Onion". Documentary, Comedy, 2006.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

At night-club in Chicago, Mar. 1964, recorded on Woody Allen Volume Two (Colpix CP 488) side 1, band 6

My brain? It's my second favorite organ!

"Fictional character: Miles Monroe". "Sleeper", www.imdb.com. 1973.