Motivational Quotes

Humor

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

- Hughes, Langston

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Horace

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

Diller, Phyllis

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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

Martin, Steve

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

Eco, Umberto

Isn't it sad how some people can't be funny, so they have to settle for being obnoxious?

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

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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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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Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

Seabury, David

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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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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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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

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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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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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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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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Socrates

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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

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

Knox, Ronald

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

Joubert, Joseph

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I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

Nelson, Lord

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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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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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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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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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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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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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin