Edgar Wilson Nye Quotes

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I have been told that Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

There is a grim and ghastly humor — the humor that is born of a pathetic philosophy — which now and then strikes me in reading the bright and keen-witted work of our American paragraphers. It is a humor that may be crystallized by hunger and sorrow and tears. It is not found elsewhere as it is in America. It is out of the question in England, because an Englishman cannot poke fun at himself. He cannot joke about an empty flour-barrel. We can: especially if by doing it we may swap the joke for another barrel of flour. We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.

Edgar Wilson Nye

I rise from bed the first thing in the morning, leaving my couch not because I am dissatisfied with it, but because I cannot carry it with me during the day.

Edgar Wilson Nye

Edgar Wilson Nye

Edgar Wilson Nye

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Born: August 25, 1850

Died: February 22, 1896 (aged 45)

Bio: Edgar Wilson "Bill" Nye was a distinguished American journalist, who later became widely known as a humorist. He was also the founder and editor of the Laramie Boomerang.

Known for:

Comic History Of England
Bill Nye's History of the United States (1894)
Bill Nye and Boomerang (1881)
Comic History of the United States
Bill Nye's Red Book (1891)

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