“Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.” HumorLanguageBornNaturalEffortSituationFateConsciousWitInevitableIronyArtificial Book:Essays in Idleness Source: Essays in Idleness
“I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children.” NeedsMeanChildrenHumorPoliticalEffortIlliteratePolitical HumorRacial ProfilingWholesale Author:George W. Bush
“I sincerely believe that the collective efforts of many secularists during the past generation, resulting in the expulsion from our schools and from the public square, has left us vulnerable.” BelieveHumorSchoolPastLeftReligiousEffortGenerationsPositive AtheismVulnerableCollectivesSquaresSincerelyExpulsionPast GenerationsCollective Effort Author:Jerry Falwell
“Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.” HumorFunnyUsedEffortProgressModernDrinkUsed To BeContinuingModern Life Author:Bill Vaughan
“Now, most of the time you couldn't be too sure of the quality of the drug. Although, in my experience the stuff was always of a very high quality, because back then we didn't have business majors peddling lower-quality stuff in an effort to increase profits.” HumorFunnyStuffEffortQualityDrugMajorsIncreaseProfitHigh QualityPeddling Book:Nothing's Sacred Source: Nothing's Sacred