Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Kathryn L. Nelson

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.

Wilson, Flip

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

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

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

Dick Clark

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

Knox, Ronald

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

Martin, Steve

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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'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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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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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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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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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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

21.

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

Martin, Steve

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

Diller, Phyllis

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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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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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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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

Horace

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

Fredrich

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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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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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We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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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 has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life. Its mode has often been swift and coarse and ruthless, beyond art and beyond established civilization. It has engaged in warfare against the established heritage, against the bonds of pioneer existence. Its objective --the unconscious objective of a disunited people --has seemed to be that of creating fresh bonds, a new unity, the semblance of a society and the rounded completion of an American type.

Rourke, Constance

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

Albee, Edward

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

Edward De Bono

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

James Thurber

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Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.