Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Gary, Roman

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

Nelson, Lord

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth -- a sense of humor.

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

Mel Brooks

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

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

Seabury, David

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

Bill Nye

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Wilson, Flip

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

Fredrich

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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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

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

Herold, Don

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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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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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

Diller, Phyllis

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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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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

Martin, Steve

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

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

Conrad, Joseph

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life. Its mode has often been swift and coarse and ruthless, beyond art and beyond established civilization. It has engaged in warfare against the established heritage, against the bonds of pioneer existence. Its objective --the unconscious objective of a disunited people --has seemed to be that of creating fresh bonds, a new unity, the semblance of a society and the rounded completion of an American type.

Rourke, Constance

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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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?

Dick Clark

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

Williamson, Nicol

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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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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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.