Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Bruce, Lenny

Best Quotes about Humor

1.

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

2.

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

Proverb, Chinese

3.

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

Williamson, Nicol

4.

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

5.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

6.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

7.

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

Lewis Mumford

8.

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

Trilling, Lionel

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Eco, Umberto

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

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

Procter, J. J.

16.

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

17.

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

Salma Hayek

18.

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

Horace

19.

What's the point of havin'a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?

Jeph Jacques

20.

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

21.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

22.

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

23.

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

Hughes, Langston

24.

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

25.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

Conrad, Joseph

26.

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

27.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

28.

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

29.

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

30.

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

Twain, Mark

31.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

32.

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

Rourke, Constance

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Dick Clark

36.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

37.

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

38.

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

Albee, Edward

39.

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

A. Whitney Brown

40.

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

41.

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.

Wilson, Flip

42.

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

Strachey, Lionel

43.

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

Edward De Bono

44.

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