Evan Esar Quotes

People seem to really enjoy laughing at me.

It is always cruel to laugh at people, of course, although sometimes if they are wearing an ugly hat it is hard to control yourself.

I think that certain things are funny and certain things are okay to make fun of - including myself.

The joy of the roasts is to watch people get hurt and offended, and then have to laugh to pretend they're a good sport.

You didn't want to laugh, did you? It wasn't very funny, was it?

Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others' discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it's funny.

Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.

I was the dude you didn't wanna go to school with, because I would come to school and get on your shoes. If you had a hole in your pants, I'd talk about it all day long. If your hair was messed up, if you had buck teeth, I'd talk about it all day long. And I made people laugh doing it, but it wasn't like I thought I was a comedian.

Some people don't have a sense of humor.

The minute you're laughing, some people will say you're laughing at people.

Nobody likes me,” he concluded at the tail end of a ten-minute pity fest. “Can’t imagine why,” Quinn murmured. I turned my snort of laughter into a fake cough, which was an embarrassingly feeble attempt at subterfuge when you consider the fact that I didn’t have any lungs.

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?

Hanging out with comics, all they did was make fun of me.

His eyes widened just a bit, his lips flexed. I realized he was trying not to laugh. I hate it when people find my threats amusing.

Everybody funny, now you funny too.

The thing that's weird is that we thought it was funny. We expected people to get the joke - that we [with Andrew Ridgeley] were two guys really making asses of ourselves.

The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.

If you can really laugh at yourself loud and hard every time you fall, people will think you're drunk.

Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.

I am never embarrassed by something that makes people laugh.

It may be remarked in general, that the laugh of men of wit is for the most part but a feint, constrained kind of half-laugh, as such persons are never without some diffidence about them; but that of fools is the most honest, natural, open laugh in the world.

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.

Reviewers are the worst laughers in the world.

If I make fun of somebody at my show, believe me, it's something we can all laugh at.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.