Humor Quotes
“I want to be taken seriously as the type of musician that plays stuff like an electric rake. I mean, how seriously do you take someone like Spike Jones? They take him pretty seriously - a really good musician who made a great contribution in terms of humor, which is part of what I try to do too.”
“Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.”
-- Lionel Trilling
“Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny.”
-- Will Eisner
“This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.”
-- Lin Yutang
“If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.”
-- Paul Simon