Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

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Mel Brooks (born Melvin James Kaminsky; June 28, 1926) is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, songwriter and playwright. With a career spanning nine decades, he is known for a variety of successful farces and parodies. A recipient of numerous accolades, he is one of the few people to win the...

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If you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living.

Comedy is when you accidentally fall off a cliff and die. Tragedy is when I have a hangnail.

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

—Edith Sitwell

Sometimes you walk past a pretty girl on the street and there's something beyond beauty in her face, something warm and smart and sensual and inviting, and in the three seconds you have to look at her, you actually fall in love, and in those moments, you can actually know the taste of her kiss, the feel of her skin against yours, the sound of her laugh, how she'll look at you and make you whole. And then she's gone, and in the five seconds afterward, you mourn her loss with more sadness than you'll ever admit to.

—Jonathan Tropper

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I don't want a taste of something I can never have.

—Abbi Glines in Hold On Tight

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

—James Thurber

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