Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Best Quotes about Humor

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

Charlie Chaplin

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

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Dick Clark

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

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

Rourke, Constance

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

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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

James Thurber

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Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

Martin, Steve

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

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

A. Whitney Brown

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

Albee, Edward

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Martin, Steve

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

Irving, Washington

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All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.

Bruce, Lenny

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

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

Socrates

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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