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

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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

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

Jeph Jacques

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

Conrad, Joseph

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.

Clark, Dick

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

Lewis Mumford

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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

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

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

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

Albee, Edward

15.

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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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Edward De Bono

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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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 the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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

Bill Nye

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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 joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

Fredrich

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Martin, Steve

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There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.

Procter, J. J.

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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 the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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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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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Knox, Ronald

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

Horace

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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