Comedy proverbs

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◆ Lord, what fools these mortals be!

- William Shakespeare99

◆ The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

- Horace Walpole99

◆ There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

- Erma Bombeck99

◆ A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh.

- Stephen King99

◆ A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.

- Frank Zappa99

◆ Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.

- Steve Martin99

◆ Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

- Mel Brooks99

◆ Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.

- Eric Idle99

◆ I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

- Graham Chapman99

◆ Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?

- Chris Rock99

◆ Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.

- Jeannette Walls99

◆ Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.

- Jean Racine99

◆ Each of us is full of shit in our own special way. We are all shitty little snowflakes dancing in the universe.

- Lewis Black99

◆ You know you're a hot mess when the only person buying you drinks all night is yourself.

- Chelsea Handler99

◆ Don't do it! Stay away from your potential. You'll mess it up, it's potential, leave it. Anyway, it's like your bank balance - you always have a lot less than you think.

- Dylan Moran99