Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Diller, Phyllis

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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

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

Clark, Dick

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Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

Muir, Frank

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

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

Albee, Edward

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.

Knox, Ronald

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

Strachey, Lionel

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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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

Williamson, Nicol

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Fredrich

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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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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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

James Thurber

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Proverb, Chinese

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