Motivational Quotes

Humor

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

- A. Whitney Brown

Best Quotes about Humor

The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

Colton, Charles Caleb

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

Fredrich

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

Muir, Frank

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

The best defence against misguided arrogance is a keen sense of humour.

Kathryn L. Nelson

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.

Wilson, Flip

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

Warhol, Andy

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What's the point of havin'a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?

Jeph Jacques

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All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.

Bruce, Lenny

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Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

Kleiser, Grenville

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

Lewis Mumford

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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

Conrad, Joseph

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Where ever you find humor, you find pathos close by it side.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.

Procter, J. J.

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Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

Hughes, Langston

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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Horace Walpole

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Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.

Mary Hirsch

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The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

Socrates

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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic good-natured laughter and is favored by the healing-power gang. Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.

King, Florence

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Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

Seabury, David

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A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.

Horace

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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people --that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

Thurber, James

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One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

Nelson, Lord

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Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.

Smith, Alfred E.

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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

Irving, Washington

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The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

James Thurber

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.

Clark, Dick

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Humor -- the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.

Rourke, Constance

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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth -- a sense of humor.

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Humor is, I think, the sublets and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers

Rosten, Leo