Motivational Quotes

Humor

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

- Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

Best Quotes about Humor

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

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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

A. Whitney Brown

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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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Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.

Mary Hirsch

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

12.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

Charlie Chaplin

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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

Socrates

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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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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 secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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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

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

James Thurber

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

Clark, Dick

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

Procter, J. J.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Horace

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

Fredrich

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

Hughes, Langston

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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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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 can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

E. B. White

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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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

Albee, Edward

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As a person is so must you humor them.