A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.Ernest Hemingway
Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.Franklin D. Roosevelt
The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.Barack Obama
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.Franklin D. Roosevelt
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.George Orwell
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.George Orwell