Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Bill Nye

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Nelson, Lord

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

Eva Hoffman

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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

Socrates

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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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

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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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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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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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A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Williamson, Nicol

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Seabury, David

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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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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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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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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 secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

Horace Walpole

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

Martin, Steve

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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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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Twain, Mark

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Edward De Bono

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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

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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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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.