Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Gary, Roman

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

11.

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

Bruce, Lenny

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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

Mel Brooks

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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

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

Martin, Steve

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

Hughes, Langston

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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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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Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

E. B. White

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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

Truman, Harry S

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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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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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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.

Strachey, Lionel

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life. Its mode has often been swift and coarse and ruthless, beyond art and beyond established civilization. It has engaged in warfare against the established heritage, against the bonds of pioneer existence. Its objective --the unconscious objective of a disunited people --has seemed to be that of creating fresh bonds, a new unity, the semblance of a society and the rounded completion of an American type.

Rourke, Constance

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

40.

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

Colby, Frank Moore

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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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All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

Charlie Chaplin

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

Albee, Edward

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

Lewis Mumford

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Humor is a whisper from the soul, imploring mind and body to relax, let go and be at peace again.

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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

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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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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

James Thurber

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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