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

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Eva Hoffman

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

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

Rourke, Constance

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

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Bruce, Lenny

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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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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

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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 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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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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

Horace

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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

A. Whitney Brown

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

James Thurber

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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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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

34.

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

Warhol, Andy

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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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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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Albee, Edward

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

Trilling, Lionel

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

Socrates

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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