Motivational Quotes

Humor

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

- Horace Walpole

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Williamson, Nicol

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

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

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

Eco, Umberto

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

Rourke, Constance

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Eva Hoffman

10.

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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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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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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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 world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Horace Walpole

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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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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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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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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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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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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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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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

Diller, Phyllis

29.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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

Edward De Bono

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Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

Bill Nye

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

Martin, Steve

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

Socrates

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

A. Whitney Brown

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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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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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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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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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

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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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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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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 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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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