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

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

Eco, Umberto

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

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

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

Rourke, Constance

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Procter, J. J.

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

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

Jeph Jacques

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

Gary, Roman

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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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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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Fredrich

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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Mel Brooks

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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Diller, Phyllis

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A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella.

David Nicholls

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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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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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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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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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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

Horace

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

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

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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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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

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

Edward De Bono

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

Martin, Steve

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

Beecher, Henry Ward