Quotations
It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas. FreePaperz now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.
Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.
the humorist
«The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| Keywords:
humorist, humorists, satirist, Satirists, the humorist, wit
«Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers.»
Author: Leo Rosten
(Novelist)
| About:
Humor
| Keywords:
accidental, chanciest, chancy, essayist, essayists, humorists, Journalists, subtlest, the humorist, Thurber, Thurbers
«The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.»
«HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick.Lo! the poor humorist, whose tortured mind See jokes in crowds, though still to gloom inclined -- Whose simple appetite, untaught to stray, His brains, renewed by night, consumes by day. He thinks, admitted to an equal sty, A graceful hog would bear his company. --Alexander Poke»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
austerity, consumes, crowds, gloom, his company, hoar, hog, humorists, persuaded, plague, poking, renewed, softened, stray, the humorist, untaught
«HOMOEOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
humorist, humorists, medical, the humorist
«It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
burden, congressmen, critics, humorists, missionaries, the humorist