Famous Quotes

"All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it."

Fred Allen on Humor

More quotes about Humor

• "A joke is a very serious thing."

  Winston Churchill on Humor

• "Humor is mankind's greatest blessing."

  Mark Twain on Humor

• "Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."

  William James on Humor

• "If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Humor

• "A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road."

  Henry Ward Beecher on Humor

More quotes by Fred Allen

• "We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion."

• "An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission."

• "My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense."

• "Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure."

• "I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap."