Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

Best Quotes about Humor

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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

Charlie Chaplin

Fortune and humor govern the world.

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

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice.

Johnson, Samuel

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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

Proverb, Chinese

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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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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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Gary, Roman

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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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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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 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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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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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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

Albee, Edward

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

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

A. Whitney Brown

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Eco, Umberto

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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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

Diller, Phyllis

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There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

Eva Hoffman

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

Rourke, Constance

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

Lewis Mumford

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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Williamson, Nicol

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

Edward De Bono

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

Maclaine, Shirley