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

Love is composed of so many sensations, that something new of it can always be...

Love is composed of so many sensations, that something new of it can always be...

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

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.

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...

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

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...

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...

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and...

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and...

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some...

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some...

Love is a many splintered thing.

Love is a many splintered thing.

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...

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.

Women deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty-eight and forty

Women deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty-eight and forty

Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows...

Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows...

Don't get it right, just get it written

Don't get it right, just get it written

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

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

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in...

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in...

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

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

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or...

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or...

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all...

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all...