Motivational Quotes

Humor

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

- Albee, Edward

Best Quotes about Humor

Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

Herold, Don

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

Mary Hirsch

Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.

Diller, Phyllis

The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

Bruce, Lenny

There is this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means; draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

Edward De Bono

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

Clark, Dick

There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

Eva Hoffman

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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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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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Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Borge, Victor

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Isn't it sad how some people can't be funny, so they have to settle for being obnoxious?

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella.

David Nicholls

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

Fredrich

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

A. Whitney Brown

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Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.

Salma Hayek

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If you're at school and you're not that bright or good-looking or popular or whatever, and one day you say something and someone laughs, well, you sort of grab onto it, don't you? you think, well I run funny and I've got this stupid big face and big thighs and no-one fancies me, but at least I can make people laugh. And It's such a nice feeling, making someone laugh, that maybe you get a bit reliant on it. Like, if you're not funny then you're not... anything.

David Nicholls

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

Lewis Mumford

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Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.

Mark Twain

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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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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.

Martin, Steve

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Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

Bill Nye

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If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her.

Williamson, Nicol

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Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.

Knox, Ronald

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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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

Wilson, Flip

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Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Horace

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists in the room will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke.

Keillor, Garrison

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I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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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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The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.