Frankie Howerd

"Education without humility is just showing off with expensive words."

"Time is the only critic that matters; everything else is just noise."

"Freedom is the ability to fail spectacularly in front of an audience and call it art."

"The greatest performances come from showing your scars, not hiding them."

"Money can buy you a stage, but it cannot buy you an audience's laughter."

"Health is not the absence of illness; it's the presence of joy in what you do."

"Adventure isn't found in exotic places; it's found in seeing the familiar with fresh eyes."

"Imagination is the only thing we own completely and cannot be taxed."

"Gratitude turns what we have into enough and more into abundance."

"The philosophy of life should be: when in doubt, add more gestures."

"Leadership is knowing when to be the comic and when to be the audience."

"Work that doesn't make you smile is just labour with better pay."

"Dreams are just plans that haven't been made ridiculous yet."

"Perseverance is falling down seven times and getting up with a better joke."

"Justice requires both a sense of right and a sense of humor about the odds against you."

"The greatest love affair is between you and your own authenticity."

"Solitude is where the best material comes from; company is where you test it."

"Technology has given us so many ways to communicate and so little left to actually say."

"History shows us that today's scandal is tomorrow's punchline."

"Politics is like comedy except the jokes have real consequences."

"War teaches us that human beings are capable of both the worst and the most absurd."

"Motivation without action is just daydreaming with good intentions."

"Inspiration strikes at the most inconvenient times, usually when you're not prepared to receive it."

"A family that laughs together can survive almost anything except silence."

"Music is the language that emotions speak when words have given up."

"Faith is believing the show will be good even when the rehearsals have been terrible."

"Nature doesn't need comedy; it's already perfect in its tragicomedy."

"Science tells us how things work; comedy tells us why it's so funny that they do."

"The path to wisdom is paved with embarrassing mistakes well-told."

"Peace comes not from the absence of conflict, but from laughing at it instead."