Scott Adams Quotes

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

There's always been this tradition of satirizing these rich groups of people.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

I find it really appalling when people talk about comedy.

The common thread of my comedy shows is conflict and, I guess, the frustration of people who either argue with you or just say stuff which is blatantly incorrect, and nobody calls them out on 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.

As you watch the Gary Condit interview, three words come to mind: stiff, unbending and impenetrable. And that's just his hair.

Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.

The establishment can accept being screwed, but not being laughed at

Rick Steiner is so stupid, it takes him an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes.

People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.

Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which from its predominance over such minds, often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.

Laughter tends to mock the pompous and the pretentious; all man's boastful gadding about, all his pretty pomps, his hoary customs, his wornout creeds, changing the glitter of them into the dullest hue of lead.

Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.

Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.

Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.

It is a challenge. When you do things that are comedy, you're having to look at the funnier side of life. Often I find Christians - but not just Christians, (any) people who have a certain core belief of things - don't like to have fun made of them at all.

It's certainly easy to mock some things ... Oddly enough though I've never found it easy to mock anything of value. Only things that are tawdry and fatuous - perhaps it's just me.

As a comedian, I think we all look for those areas where the truth diverts from what people are saying. That's why politics is such a rich area for us, because politicians make promises, and they don't keep them, and when we point out the difference, we get the laugh.

When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric.

Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.

Thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows.

I get letters from people who say, 'What have you got against women?' What could I possibly have against women? I've married three of them.

There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.

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.