Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Humor

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Martin, Steve

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

James Thurber

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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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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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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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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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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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 our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

Lewis Mumford

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

Edward De Bono

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

Williamson, Nicol

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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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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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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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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Charlie Chaplin

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

Horace

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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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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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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 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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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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

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

Fredrich

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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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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

Beecher, Henry Ward