Will Rogers Quotes

The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

As with anything that involves emotional pain, comedy isn't too far behind. There's that element of no matter how painful something is - as long as it is not you that is going through it - it can be funny.

I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.

Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.

Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.

You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance.

I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.

Fear is what makes comedy funny.

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

As a rule, I don't like to laugh at the misfortune of others. The exception to that rule is if it's really, really funny.

I like humor.

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

I have so much respect for what's funny.

Misery is the stuff of comedy, if one can just live long enough to get over it.

I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.

I don't think it's a contradiction to find painfulness funny.

I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.

Comedy is tragedy - plus time.

If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?

There is a universality to comedy.

The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.

If it gets laughs, it's funny.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.