A. E. Housman Quotes

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Comics are just mirrors. People can either laugh at the reflection or be disgusted by 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.

A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.

He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.

Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.

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

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

What makes me laugh is, of course, the absurd, the horror - anything that upsets me.

An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.

I'm quite good at not writing.

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

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's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.

I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world... perhaps you've seen it.

I have never knowingly, I swear to God, written satire. The word connotes exaggeration of the foibles of mankind. To me, mankind just has foibles. You don't have to push it!

Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.

The Times is speechless and takes three columns to express its speechlessness.