Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Bill Nye

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Clark, Dick

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

Albee, Edward

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Hughes, Langston

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

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

Salma Hayek

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

James Thurber

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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Horace

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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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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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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

Williamson, Nicol

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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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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Gary, Roman

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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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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Herold, Don

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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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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 just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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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 a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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