Quotes of: Thompson Keyword

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.

Jacob Riis

Nobody enjoys the 'little show about nothing' humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

Jerry Seinfeld

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

Max Eastman

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

Mahatma Gandhi

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

Mignon McLaughlin

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Mark Twain

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Mark Twain

I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.

Shelley Berman

I have always found humor in places where humor wasn't necessarily intended.

Silas Weir Mitchell

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

W. Somerset Maugham

The pull of history has been a strong theme in my life as a novelist.

Anita Shreve

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.

Julien Benda

By the end of 'Game Change,' one feels that the candidates' few happy moments are those when they 'lose it.'

Tina Brown

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Alice Thomas Ellis

It's good for actors to confront those things we have to act: panic, pain and death.

Antony Sher

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

E. W. Howe

I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be.

James Salter

Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.

Nick Tosches

Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.

Polly Toynbee

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

Peter De Vries

North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to Him.

Rebecca Harding Davis