Francois Rabelais Quotes

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

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

Jokes are grievances.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

His foe was folly and his weapon wit.

As to your extraordinary code of laws, I cannot help but laugh.

There was a lot about the military that I thought was pretty silly, but these cartoons weren't meant to take a poke at anybody or anything. They were meant to make people laugh.

We don't really see a lot of comedic moments in '24.' In fact, I haven't seen all of it, but from what I have seen, I don't know if I've ever laughed at anything that anyone has done on '24.'

Comedy's the ultimate pill that helps the really hard truths and hard facts go down, right?

There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.

I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much.

Writers are encouraged to "keep 'em laughing" and complain "with good humor" in order to "win" allies. The joke is always on ourselves.

Soon Hansel and Gretel came to a little cottage. When they got quite near, they saw that the little house was made of bread and roofed with cake. The windows were transparent sugar." "There must not have been a very strict building code.

The wisest thing to do with a fool is to encourage him to hire a hall and discourse to his fellow-citizens . Nothing chills nonsense like exposure to the air.

Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.

What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow. I cannot conscientiously recommend it for any useful purposes whatever. All I can suggest is that when you get tired of reading "the best hundred books," you may take this for half an hour. It will be a change.

I don't know what humor is.

Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.

You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm. It's really funny.