Best Clowning Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It's painful listening to the clowning of the unfortunate or the dying.”

“One-man regimes belong to old eras; they involve clowning and arbitrariness! In the twenty-first century only the silly and larky nations give permission to such third-class contemptible regimes!”

“Satisfy people's desire for the ridiculous and they will accept your idea of the sublime.”

Theater Theatre Clown Performance Clowning

Book:Clowns and Pantomimes

Source: Clowns and Pantomimes

“There is a gesture he has, a motion, that always reminds me of a great batter leaning into a hit. He has a way of throwing one foot forward, putting his head down a bit as he silently runs the valves, and then the cheeks bloom out in the way that has mystified his dentist for years, and he hits into the solo. When that foot goes forward like that, you know that John Birks Gillespie is no longer clowning. Stand back.”

Knows Way Years Running Bits Feet Throwing Gestures Cheeks Solo Dentist Valve Clowning

Author:Gene Lees

“I was always one who was clowning around in school and getting in trouble.”

School Trouble Clowning

Author:David Boreanaz

“Casey wanted us to stay loose. That didn't mean clowning around. He just meant we should be confident and relaxed. We shouldn't feel that one strikeout was going to end the season for us.”

Feels Should Mean Ends Wanted Baseball Seasons Relaxed Be Confident Strikeouts Clowning

Author:Mickey Mantle

“In all honesty, I never actually did anything wrong (in my eyes, at least) at school or misbehaved in any big way. If it was anything, it was probably just a lot of clowning around.”

Ifs Way Bigs Eye School Honesty Clowning

Author:Rory McIlroy

“There's an element of clowning and entertainment to Trump, that makes it surreal and hard to understand to what extent he is pretending to be a fascist or an authoritarian.”

Hard Trump Elements Entertainment Pretending Surreal Fascists Clowning

Author:Jonathan Chait

“It's possible that the clowning and the buffoonery and the entertainment are a bigger part of what's happening than we've allowed. And that Trump is primarily an entertainer who wants ratings, and an undisciplined speaker, and it will all be less than we think. It's something that we have to consider as a possibility; we don't know.”

Thinking Knows Want Possibility Trump Happenings Bigger Entertainment Speakers Entertainers Rating Undisciplined Clowning

Author:Jonathan Chait

“Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.”

Knows Looks Littles Whole Young Audience Rocks Respect Plus Rock Music Clowning

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.”

Humor Funny Comedy Car Friends Died Funeral Clown Clowning

Author:Steven Wright

“Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of my time. Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.”

Littles Has Beens Opinion Poet Politician Musician Jazz Philosopher Painter Comedian Novelists My Time Historian Preacher Comforting Enlightening Jazz Musician Clowning

Book:Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

Source: Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

“As I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement and communion, sincerity and simulation, ambition and acquiescence, I shuttle between worrying whether I matter at all and whether anything else matters but me.”

Way Matter Problem Worry Ambition Eternity Wrestling Sincerity Communion Sentimental Simulation Estrangement Acquiescence Clowning

Book:Moab is My Washpot

Source: Moab is My Washpot

“A clown is like aspirin, only he works twice as fast.”

Humor Inspiration Funny Clown Aspirin Clowning

Author:Groucho Marx

“I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.”

Knows Class Teacher Smart Jokes Clown Clowning

Author:J. Cole

“Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.”

Littles Opinion Jazz Historian Clowning

Book:Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

Source: Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

“I am always joking and always clowning, giving and helping.”

Giving Helping Clowning

Author:Red Buttons

“Children have a remarkable talent for not taking the adult world with the kind of respect we are so confident it ought to be given. To the irritation of authority figures of all sorts, children expend considerable energy in "clowning around." They refuse to appreciate the gravity of our monumental concerns, while we forget that if we were to become more like children our concerns might not be so monumental.”

Source: The Comic Vision and the Christian Faith: A Celebration of Life and Laughter