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.
Tag: James Thurber
Total 33 Posts
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
I loathe the expression “What makes him tick.” It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like
I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.