David Hume Quotes

I want to be part of movies that have important and interesting subjects but are not depressing and are rather satirical and funny.

In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Now that we're poisoned with the culture of superheroes, I think it's important to laugh about it.

Sometimes people say I'm a political comedian, which, actually I'm not. I'm a comedian who sometimes discusses politics, culture - again, the word 'politics' to me is just life.

It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.

To learn to know oneself, to judge oneself with truth and impartiality, must be the great objects of one's exertion; they are only attainable by constant and cool self-examination.

Fill the seats of justice With good men, not so absolute in goodness As to forget what human frailty is.

That's life's big joke: we all end up looking like Mr. Burns.

It's not only teenagers who think they look good in pre-holed jeans, and I doubt it's only the superannuated who are amused by Ant and Dec.

In my poems though, as you say, the comic arrived fairly late. This doubtless has something to do with growing older. A person who's seen a bit of the world can't help but notice how foolish is the self-centeredness we bring to our tiny slice of existence.

People are born soft and weak. They die hard and stiff.

No one wants to see a hero have to pick up his cane to hit someone, but I'm still quite fit enough to fake it.

Isn’t it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?

I have profound respect for Sacha Baron Cohen, but Borat is not a particularly comfortable movie for me to sit through.

First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass.

He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.

Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.

once you laugh at you own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Mabye........ combat some the ugliness in the world.

The human condition is imperfection. And that's how it's supposed to be.

Every human being in the human form has limitations.

can't blame a man for being human when human is all he'll ever be!

A knowledge of brain science will provide one of the major foundations of the new age to come. That knowledge will spawn cures for disease, new machines based on brain function, further insights into our nature and how we know.

Scandal is only human.

I suppose I'm not quite the oldest detective on the block - David Jason is. When's he going to retire and give rest of us a chance?! No, his Touch Of Frost is terrific and a wonderful antidote to the po-faced detective shows around at the moment. Anyway, I can't retire. I have a wife and five chickens to feed.