The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with…

Quote by James Thurber

Topics: Success Quotes

Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.

Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.

A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.

A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between...

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between...

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.

The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours...

The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours...

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known...

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known...

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by...

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by...

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our...

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our...

Let the meek inherit the earth - they have it coming to them

Let the meek inherit the earth - they have it coming to them

The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of...

The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of...

Love is like the wind. You cannot see it... But you can feel it.

Love is like the wind. You cannot see it... But you can feel it.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound,...

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound,...

Love is a many splintered thing.

Love is a many splintered thing.

My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or...

My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or...

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather...

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather...

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once....

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once....

If you work in a hospital, you cant easily fake call in sick to work....

If you work in a hospital, you cant easily fake call in sick to work....

I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have...

I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have...