humor – Page 18 – Purpee Quotes

Jazz can be so serious, no sense

Posted on June 3, 2013June 3, 2008 by admin

“Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.”

— Chad Smith

Author: Chad Smith
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People of humor are always in some

Posted on May 12, 2013May 12, 2008 by admin

“People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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There are men so philosophical that they

Posted on May 2, 2013May 2, 2008 by admin

“There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.”

— H. L. Mencken

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Wit – the salt with which the

Posted on May 1, 2013May 1, 2008 by admin

“Wit – the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.”

— Ambrose Bierce

Author: Ambrose Bierce
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My father could be very witty, even

Posted on April 24, 2013April 24, 2008 by admin

“My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.”

— Maurice Sendak

Author: Maurice Sendak
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Writing a novel is one of those

Posted on April 24, 2013April 24, 2008 by admin

“Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.”

— J. G. Ballard

Author: J. G. Ballard
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