#humor

Look at Gleason in The Honeymooners. He was humorous but the way he lived wasn't really humorous. He was a bus driver. Who wants to be a bus driver? He didn't have any money and he was not famous. But despite that, the show is humorous. ↗

— George Thorogood

#bus #bus driver #despite #driver #famous

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth. ↗

— James Thurber

#artists #become #depth #humor #longer

There's always a source for humor. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#humor #source

My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#between #dad #direct #family #fell

When a person encounters his own statue and takes a hammer to it, performance art adds depth to greatness. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #greatness #humor #art

Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low. ↗

— James Joyce

#hoyce #humor #wake #art

How many types of curtains can there be? When I asked the salesman this, he banged on the organ and bellowed with laughter. But I saw those feet fidgeting. He just didn't know. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#humor #random #funny

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#console #given #him #humor #imagination

Cynicism is humor in ill health. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#health #humor #ill

It’s not the job of the child to make the parent happy. It’s the job of the parent to take care of their own happiness. ↗

— Art Hochberg

#inspirational #art