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

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

Dick Clark

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

A. Whitney Brown

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

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

Williamson, Nicol

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

Hughes, Langston

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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

Nelson, Lord

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Mel Brooks

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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

Eco, Umberto

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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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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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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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One never needs their humor as much as when they argue with a fool.

Proverb, Chinese

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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

Socrates

24.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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

Albee, Edward

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

Procter, J. J.

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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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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 by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

Edward De Bono

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

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

Horace Walpole

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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

Martin, Steve

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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

Knox, Ronald

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

Fredrich

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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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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Fortune and humor govern the world.