Quotes about comedy
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All my life, I’ve always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlinborn 1939The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985), As “Chrissy”I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
Montesquieu1689–1755Lettres Persanes (Persian Letters, 1721), No. 125. (Usbek writing to Rhedi)Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head.
Muhammad Ali1942–2016On Joe FrazierIf I had known what it would be like to have it all… I might have been willing to settle for less.
Lily Tomlinborn 1939The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985), As “Lyn”
David Lloyd George1863–1945Remark to Arthur Salter and A. L. Rowse at dinner (29 August 1938), quoted in A. J. Sylvester, Life With Lloyd George (1975), p. 216
Hunter S. Thompson1937–2005The Rum Diary (1998)
Herbert Hoover1874–1964To a young autograph seeker, signing his name six times; as quoted in “Hoover Elated by Swift Turn From New Deal” by Philip Kinsley, Chicago Tribune (18 December 1935), p. 4
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007A Man Without a Country (2005)
Milton Friedman1912–2006“Bureaucracy Scorned” in Newsweek (29 December 1975), later published in Bright Promises, Dismal Performance: An Economist’s Protest (1983)
John Maynard Keynes1883–1946The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Ch. III
Edward Abbey1927–1989The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975), Seldom Seen Smith, page 313
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
Adlai Stevenson II1900–1965Remarks to a Baptist convention in Texas during the 1952 presidential campaign
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Der Fall Wagner (1888)
Rita Rudnerborn 1953Best of the Improv, Vol. 3 (2003)