Redd Foxx

• I feel sorry for people who don’t drink or do drugs. Because someday they’re going to be in a hospital bed, dying, and they won’t know why.

David Letterman

• New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.

Peter Ustinov

• Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Edward Albee

• I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor

Frank Barron

• The creative person is both; more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

Ernest Hemingway

• A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

Clifton Paul Fadiman

• A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke -- and that the joke is oneself.

Bertrand Russell

• Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.

Bill Cosby

• A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

Friedrich Nietzsche

• A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.