Robert Wilson Lynd Quotes

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

Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.

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

God has a sense of humor. If you don't believe me, tomorrow go to wal-mart and just look at people.

The last living boy in America drops into my bedroom only he wants to be a monk. I think that pretty much sums up my life.

Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.

I think I do find humor in disorder, and reality is disorder.

There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.

What if life is just a cosmic joke, like spiders in your underwear.

I got a dog and named him 'Stay'. Now, I go 'Come here, Stay!' After a while, the dog went insane and wouldn't move at all.

The fact of the matter is, you can't do comedy unless someone is behaving badly. Otherwise, it's not a comedy.

If I was Simon Cowell for a day, I’d buy a bouncy castle, and jump on it. Then…pour ketchup on myself!

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

The Cha-Cha is no more ridiculous than life itself.

Oh, no, a leopard blew up and plastered itself all over everything, but hey, animal print was in this year.

A good musical comedy consists largely of disorderly conduct occassionally interrupted by talk.

One day, when I came home from work, I accidentally put my car key in the door of my apartment building. I turned it, and the whole building started up. So I drove it around. A policeman stopped me for going too fast. He said, "Where do you live?" I said, "Right here!" Then I drove my building onto the middle of a highway, and I ran outside, and told all of the cars to get the hell out of my driveway.

Life is funny and we are really funny, especially when we get to be hoity toity; we can be so ridiculous. Life is fun.

If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe.

You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!

What is so funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. Laughter is the same and healthy response to the innocent foibles of men; and even to some which are not innocent.

He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers." - Dad "Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around." - Stafford

I like any big city. I like any place where you can see a guy with a pants-full of pooh fighting a ghost.

They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things.

You know what they say in Arkansas...manure happens.