Motivational Quotes

Humor

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

- Katz, Ellie

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Jeph Jacques

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

Mel Brooks

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

The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

Bruce, Lenny

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

Lewis Mumford

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

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

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Horace

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

Martin, Steve

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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

James Thurber

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bill Nye

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A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

Herold, Don

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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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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Clark, Dick

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

Hughes, Langston

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

Socrates

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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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All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

Charlie Chaplin

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

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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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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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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Dick Clark

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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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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