Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

Quote by James Thurber

Topics: Famous Quotes

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Love is blind, but desire just doesn't give a good goddamn

Love is blind, but desire just doesn't give a good goddamn

The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at...

The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at...

Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.

Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.

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

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

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

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

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

Don't get it right, just get it written.

Don't get it right, just get it written.

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity,...

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity,...

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.

It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.

It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch...

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch...

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face...

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face...

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...

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter...

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter...

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...

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,...

I hate Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and half of Friday.

I hate Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and half of Friday.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take...

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take...

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

In this bright future you can't forget your past.

In this bright future you can't forget your past.

There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a...

There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a...

Perfection is the child of time

Perfection is the child of time