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CLOWN QUOTES

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

—Groucho Marx

“A good clown caricatures his fellow men; a great one parodies himself.”

—Pierre Mariel

“Every human being is a clown but only few have the courage to show it.”

—Charlie Rivel

“The comic spirit masquerades in all things we say and do. We are each a clown and do not need to put on a white face.”

—James Hillman

“It is meat and drink to me to see a clown.”

—William Shakespeare

“A clown is an angel with a red nose.”

—J. T. “Bubba” Sikes

“The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than the arrival of twenty asses laden with drugs.”

—Thomas Sydenham

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

—Steven Wright

“Jesters do oft prove prophets.”

—William Shakespeare

“A clown is a poet in action.”

—Henry Miller

“The art of the clown is more profound than we think…It is the comic mirror of tragedy and the tragic mirror of comedy.”

—André Suarès

“The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.”

—Miguel de Cervantes

“The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.”

—Carl Sagan

“I remain just one thing, and one thing only—and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.”

—Charlie Chaplin

“Wearing underwear on the outside of your clothes can turn a tedious trip to the store for a forgotten carton of milk into an amusement park romp.”

—Dr. Hunter “Patch” Adams

“CLOWN AND GURU ARE A SINGLE IDENTITY: THE SATIRIC AND SUBLIME SIDE OF THE SAME HIGHER VISION OF LIFE.”

—Theodore Rozak

“By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves and realizing they have done this, gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life.”

—Emmett “Weary Willie” Kelly