Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Joubert, Joseph

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.

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

Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.

Mary Hirsch

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

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

James Thurber

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.

Strachey, Lionel

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

Martin, Steve

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

Socrates

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Lewis Mumford

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

Eco, Umberto

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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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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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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What's the point of havin'a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?

Jeph Jacques

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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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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 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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A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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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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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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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