There's terrific merit in
having no sense of humour, no sense of irony, practically no sense of
anything at all. If you're born with these so-called defects you have a very
good chance of getting to the top.
-- Peter Cook |
[These quotes from a 2001
Washington TV/Radio Correspondents dinner]
As you know, we're studying safe levels for arsenic in drinking water to
base our decision on sound science, the scientists told us we need to test
the water glasses of about 3,000 people. Thank you for participating.
"Rarely is the question asked, is our children learning?" Let us analyze
that sentence for a moment. If you're a stickler, you probably think the
singular verb "is" should have been the plural "are," but if you read it
closely, you'll see I'm using the intransitive plural subjunctive tense. So
the word "is" are correct.
In my sentences I go where no man has gone before...I am a boon to the
English language.
--
George W. Bush |
Men will confess to treason,
murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack
of humor?
-- Frank Moore Colby
(The Colby Essays) |
Humor is just another defense
against the universe.
-- Mel Brooks |
When humor goes, there goes
civilization.
-- Erma Bombeck |
Good taste and humour...are a
contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
-- Malcolm Muggeridge |
What matters is not the
length of the wand, but the magic in the stick.
-- Anonymous |
A pun is the lowest form of
humor -- when you don't think of it first.
-- Oscar Levant |
There's no trick to being a
humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
-- Will Rogers |
