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By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the gravest philosopher.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be a Christian. Samuel Clemens "Mark Twain", American author and humorist — George Washington
When the public starts classifying you as thoughtful, someone given to serious issues, you find yourself declassified as a humorist.
— Johnny Carson
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
— Ambrose Bierce
To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news.
— David Sedaris
If you're too serious to make life a laughing matter, then you seriously need to make laughter matter to you today and every day!
— Jeannine M. Luby
Unless a man is in part a humorist, he is only in part a man.
— G.K. Chesterton
Today the outlandish becomes routine overnight. The humorist is trying to say that it's still outlandish.
— William Zinsser
To paraphrase the great humorist, Will Rogers . . . "We're all ignorant, but only on different subjects".
— Wilson Casey
A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking.
— P. J. O'Rourke
I was a lazy reader as a kid. One nutrition label on a box of Cap'n Crunch and I'd have to take a nap.
— M.J. McGuire
How will I be remembered? As a technician or artist? As a humorist or a visionary?
— Norman Rockwell
Today I feel like I did tomorrow.
— Carroll Bryant
He was a humorist, and everyone knew the funny writers were the most serious sort under their skins.
— Paula McLain
A year ago I came here without a nickle in my pocket, now, I've got a nickle in my pocket.
— Groucho Marx
Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist.
— George Burns
The humorist has a good eye for the humbug; he does not always recognize the saint.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.
— Amy Tan
I've never made up events, but I've always been a big exaggerator. It's written on my humorist license that I'm allowed to do that.
— David Sedaris
I'm not a comic. I'm a humorist.
— Dick Gregory
God is a great humorist. He just has a slow audience to work with.
— Garrison Keillor
To quote a noted Jewish humorist, Sholom Aleichem: "First comes health. You can always hang yourself later." As
— Bel Kaufman
Randy lay there like a slug. It was his only defense.
— Jean Shepherd
I learned as a young man that I don't write jokes, but that I can deliver more mundane material and get a laugh. I call myself a humorist.
— Nick Offerman
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
— Peter De Vries
How am I going to explain to my kids one day that I can't buy them a happy meal because the toy will make them fat?
— Carroll Bryant
Like most seasoned phonies, I roundly suspect that everyone is as disingenuous as I am.
— David Sedaris
I have the humorist Paul Krasner to thank for pointing out a big difference between George W. Bush and Hitler: Hitler was elected.
— Kurt Vonnegut
You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one
— Will Rogers
A comedian is better than a politician; at least there is no doubt.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
I consider myself always a humorist. And I think anybody who tells jokes or makes people laugh is humor.
— Dick Gregory
I'm quite the humorist, for a woman who hires killers.
— Joe Abercrombie
I recommend you don't attend the wheat and chaff bonfire.
— M.J. McGuire
To imitate a lunkhead without malice or derision is quite a feat - and Red Skelton brings it off everytime. - Humorist Leo Rosten
— Douglas Wissing
Bungee jumping is like suicide with strings attached.
— M.J. McGuire
If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist-I feel like countering with the word seriousist.
— Peter De Vries
I believe in love. Unfortunately, it doesn't believe me. Lust, on the other hand, is a nagging wife poking constantly at my DNA.
— Carroll Bryant
If I get big laughs, I'm a comedian. If I get little laughs, I'm a humorist. If I get no laughs, I'm a singer.
— George Burns
