Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.

He thought he saw some horses, too, and a clown, but it was the faces of all those dead raptors that really bothered him. And maybe that clown a little bit.

As a kid I was always a bit of a clown, a performer.

My paranoia wasn’t always right, but just to be on the safe side, I never went to sleep with a clown in the room.

The child’s laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.

As I drifted along with my bodiless invisibility, I felt myself more and more becoming an empty, floating shape, seeing without being seen and walking without the interference of those grosser creatures who shared my world. It was not an experience completely without interest or even pleasure. The clown’s shibboleth of “here we are again”...

Kill you all!” The clown was laughing and screaming. “Try to stop me and I’ll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can’t stop me!

If heaven was created only for the most stupid clown, then Mr Bean could have been the only righteous man on earth.

PROPAGANDA (PROP-A-GANDER)An evil grin behind a smiling clown’s maskKamil Ali

Pedras žinojo tai, ką žino kiekvienas tikras klounas: jog juokas – ištikimiausias tragedijos palydovas.

I am not a sad clown. I am not a sad clown.

Love is two smiles shared between two people. Or two smiles and a smirk, shared between one couple and a jerk. Or maybe three smiles and a frown, shared between two parents, their child, and a clown.

Despair is the constant companion of the clown.

T” truth that the wise spend their lives attempting to grasp.

Good madonna, give me leave toprove you a fool.

Nay, ’twill be this hour ere I have done weeping. All the kind of the Launces have this very fault. I have received my proportion, like the prodigious son, and am going with Sir Proteus to the Imperial’s court. I think Crab, my dog, be the sourest-natured dog that lives. My mother weeping, my father...

Eddie discovered one of his childhood’s great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

Never underestimate a clown with a book.

Go away, you goddamn clown!” Jenny ordered. But Benny the Clown continued to pull out handkerchief after handkerchief. Five…ten…fifteen…then… That’s not a handkerchief.

For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even crying . . . but alive. Safe. Then he pushed the thought away. Its charm was deadly, its comfort fatal.

You know, I was the class clown in Catholic school, but I never thought I would make a living out of it!

Whatever. I know that when a monster is chasing you. You take your high-heeled shoes off. I’ve learned that … And you never, ever dangle your legs over the edge of the bed at night … And clowns, well, you get rid of them right away; they are just way too freaky. If the monster...

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

The United States is the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, yet its inhabitants are strikingly unhappy. Accordingly, we present to the rest of mankind, on a planet rife with suffering and tragedy, the spectacle of a clown civilization. Sustained on a clown diet rich in sugar and fat, we have developed a...

I really wasn’t a class clown.

The clown may be the source of mirth, but – who shall make the clown laugh?

The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years–if it ever did end–began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.

The clown figure has had so many meanings in different times and cultures. The jolly, well-loved joker familiar to most people is actually but one aspect of this protean creature. Madmen, hunchbacks, amputees, and other abnormals were once considered natural clowns; they were elected to fulfill a comic role which could allow others to see...

Idealists are either blind or clowns; because they think it is possible to have a beautiful world with asshole creatures like humans.