HOMOEOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.
HOMOEOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this country is his saying,imported by Madame de Stal, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics,'Providence has given to the French the empire of the land to the English that of the sea to the Germans that ofthe air' Richter German humorist prose writer.
A humorist tells himself every morning, I hope it's going to be a rough day. When things are going well, it's much harder to make the right jokes.
The man who sees consistency in things is a wit the man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist.
Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers.
I'm not a comic. I'm a humorist.
If I get big laughs, I'm a comedian. If I get little laughs, I'm a humorist. If I get no laughs, I'm a singer.
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
If a person desires to be a humorist it is necessary that the people around him shall be at least as wise as he is, otherwise his humor will not be comprehended.
HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick.
PANTALOONS, n. A nether habiliment of the adult civilized male. The garment is tubular and unprovided with hinges at the points of flexion. Supposed to have been invented by a humorist. Called 'trousers' by the enlightened and 'pants' by the unworthy.
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
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