Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

Best Quotes about Humor

1.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

2.

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

Nelson, Lord

3.

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

A. Whitney Brown

4.

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

Bruce, Lenny

5.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

6.

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

Salma Hayek

7.

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

8.

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

9.

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

10.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

11.

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

Martin, Steve

12.

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor.

Maugham, W. Somerset

13.

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

Mel Brooks

14.

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

James Thurber

15.

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

16.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Johnson, Samuel

20.

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

Gary, Roman

21.

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

22.

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

23.

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

24.

An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.

Rourke, Constance

25.

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

26.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

27.

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

28.

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

29.

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

30.

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

Joubert, Joseph

31.

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

Edward De Bono

32.

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

Procter, J. J.

33.

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