Motivational Quotes

Humor

Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic good-natured laughter and is favored by the healing-power gang. Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.

- King, Florence

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Jeph Jacques

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

James Thurber

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Horace Walpole

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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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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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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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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Fredrich

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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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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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The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

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

Edward De Bono

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

Trilling, Lionel

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Eco, Umberto

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If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her.

Williamson, Nicol

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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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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A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella.

David Nicholls

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.