Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Knox, Ronald

Best Quotes about Humor

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

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

Mary Hirsch

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.

Rourke, Constance

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Socrates

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

Horace

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Martin, Steve

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

Eco, Umberto

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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 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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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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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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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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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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

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

Martin, Steve

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

Fredrich

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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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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?

Dick Clark

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Humor -- the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.

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One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Mel Brooks