Gary Larson Quotes

Humor is reason gone mad.

Do not fear being ridiculous in relation to the ridiculous.

Hudibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense, he says, is that which is neither true nor false. These two great properties of nonsense, which are always essential to it, give it such a peculiar advantage over all other writings, that it is incapable of being either answered or contradicted.

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

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

The best jokes resonate because they uncover ridiculousness in our daily lives, reveal the silliness - and sometimes sadness - of things we see every day.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

I love the absurd - kind of absurdist comedy, absurd things in life.

What I like about the jokes, to me it's a lot of logic, no matter how crazy they are. It has to make absolute sense, or it won't be funny.

It is only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.

Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.

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.

To write an autobiography of Groucho Marx would be as asinine as to read an autobiography of Groucho Marx.

I just got this new camera. It's very advanced - you don't even need it.

We told Stanley Roberts to go on a water diet, and Lake Superior disappeared.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

Once I saw a duck walking down the street so I went into Subway and ordered two pieces of bread, and they informed me that they could not do that, like there was some speical rule at Subway that two pieces of bread weren't allowed to touch. So the woman asked me what I wanted on the sandwich and I said I do not care, it is for a duck, and she was like oh then it's free. I was not aware that ducks eat for free at Subway. It's like give me a chicken fajita sub, but don't worry about ringing it up, it is for a duck.

Who did you pass on the road?" the King went on, holding out his hand to the Messenger for some more hay. "Nobody," said the Messenger. "Quite right," said the King; "this young lady saw him too. So of course Nobody walks slower than you." "I do my best," the Messenger said in a sullen tone. "I'm sure nobody walks much faster than I do!" "He can't do that," said the King, "or else he'd have been here first.

It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

Most jokes state a bitter truth.

I don't believe in storks. I know they don't deliver babies; they deliver pickles.

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

I have always found humor in places where humor wasn't necessarily intended.

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.