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Clown Quotes - Page 3

The whole romanticized sad clown thing, we have to get rid of that. That has to go. That's just getting sick people to voluntarily stay sicker and sadder than they have to be.

"Manic And Depressed, 'I Didn't Like Who I Was,' Says Comic Chris Gethard". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, wprl.org. May 5, 2017.

Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand.

George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.295

He is no clown that drives the plow, but he that doth clownish things.

Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.36, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Never underestimate a clown with a book.

Rawi Hage (2013). “Carnival: A Novel”, p.141, W. W. Norton & Company

Truth be told, when you start your career out as a clown, you don't consider yourself a writer.

"Lizz Winstead, Freely Speaking". Interview with Lianne Stokes, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.

Everyone knows there's only one thing less welcome on a stage than a mime, and that's a clown, because everyone knows that clowns eat people.

Laurie Notaro (2007). “There's a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell: A Novel of Sewer Pipes, Pageant Queens, and Big Trouble”, p.275, Villard

Clowns have no respect for pie.

Twitter post from Dec 23, 2011

Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.

"The Sun Watches the Sun" by Dejan Stojanovic, Sunce sebe gleda, Književna reč, Beograd, "Game III," (p. 98), 1999.

[I'm] a huge defender of clowns around the world.

"Alan Tudyk on making Moana's chicken noises and his fear of becoming Rogue One's Jar Jar". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, film.avclub.com. December 7, 2016.

Do those clowns really believe what they teach?

Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “Pale Fire”, p.249, Vintage