“That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.”
A. Whitney Brown (1952) American stand-up comedian
The Big Picture: An American Commentary (1991)
“A rule of thumb with humor; if you worry that you might be going too far, you have already not gone far enough. If everybody laughs, you have failed.”
Source: Letters to a Young Contrarian
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Ysabella Brave (1979) American singer
"Everyday Bravery" (25 March 2007)
“Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.”
Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist
"A Note on Humor", from The Book of Negro Humor https://books.google.com/books?id=60FkAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22Humor+is+laughing+at+what+you+haven%27t+got+when+you+ought+to+have+it.%22, p. vii (1966)
“Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.”
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
Variant translation: Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far.
Le Coq et l’Arlequin (1918)
“If you don't leave home you suffocate, if you go too far you lose oxygen.”
Vivian Gornick (1935) US author
The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
“You too are going to die, and that’s because you too were fortunate enough to have lived.”
Mark Manson (1984) American writer and blogger
Source: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (2016), Chapter 9, “...And Then You Die” (p. 208)
Gregory Peck (1916–2003) American actor
As quoted in The ArtSlut's Guide to Makin' It — As a Visual Artist (2007) by Barb Benson
Context: You have to dream, you have to have a vision, and you have to set a goal for yourself that might even scare you a little because sometimes that seems far beyond your reach. Then I think you have to develop a kind of resistance to rejection, and to the disappointments that are sure to come your way.
Chuck Palahniuk (1962) American novelist, essayist
Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories (2004)
Source: Stranger than Fiction
“You have to be! (Laughs) You might get shot!”
John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
Responding to a reporter question during The Beatles Australian tour of if they were aware of everything going on around them. http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=5x5UUQM2Qy4
Jericho Brown (1976) American writer
On how social and political crises are seeping into American poetry in “JERICHO BROWN in conversation with MICHAEL DUMANIS” http://www.benningtonreview.org/jericho-brown-interview in Bennington Review (2018 Oct 27)