Isaac Asimov book Buy Jupiter and Other Stories
Buy Jupiter and Other Stories (1975), p. 33
General sources
“There have been a good many funny things said and written about hardupishness, but the reality is not funny, for all that. It is not funny to have to haggle over pennies. It isn't funny to be thought mean and stingy. It isn't funny to be shabby and to be ashamed of your address. No, there is nothing at all funny in poverty — to the poor.”
"On Being Hard Up".
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "There have been a good many funny things said and written about hardupishness, but the reality is not funny, for all th…" by Jerome K. Jerome?
Jerome K. Jerome87
English humorist 1859–1927Related quotes
Ken Dodd (1927–2018) English comedian, singer-songwriter and actor
Quoted in Manchester Evening News, http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/entertainment/comedy/s/234/234894_dodds_bolton_bonus.htmlDodd's Bolton bonus, Natalie Anglesey. (2008-04-28)
“A good comedian can say things funny and other guys just say funny things.”
Fred Allen (1894–1956) comedian
Attributed by Robert Lemke in The Sunday Press (Binghamton, NY), “Rock ‘n Roll ‘Musically Horrid” Says Ex-2-a-Dayer,” pg. 2-C, col. 1 (9 August 1959)
“A dimwit thinks nothing is funny unless it's mean.”
Stephen King book The Green Mile
Source: The Green Mile
Ben Garrison American political cartoonist
The “Rogue Cartoonist” Ben Garrison on What it’s Like to be a Political Cartoonist During the Presidential Election http://www.lifeandnews.com/articles/the-rogue-cartoonist-ben-garrison-on-what-its-like-to-be-a-political-cartoonist-during-the-presidential-election/ (September 30, 2016)
Roger Ebert (1942–2013) American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter
Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/wedding-crashers-2005 of Wedding Crashers (14 July 2005) <br class="br">Reviews, Two star reviews
“If you were half as funny as you thought you were, my boy, you'd be twice as funny as you are.”
Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments
Madame Dorothea to Jace, pg. 102
The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
“Well, I thought it was funny.”
Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor
A six-word autobiography, NationalPost.com http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/theampersand/archive/2007/12/13/six-word-memoir-contest-explodes-read-ten-of-the-best-first-fifty-entries.aspx, (13 December 2007)
