Motivational Quotes

Humor

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

- Maclaine, Shirley

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Martin, Steve

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

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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

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

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.

Smith, Alfred E.

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

Trilling, Lionel

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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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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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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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 is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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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 is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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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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The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Socrates

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

Fredrich

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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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Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

Seabury, David

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They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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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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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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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Knox, Ronald

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

Mel Brooks

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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

Albee, Edward

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

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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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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

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

Conrad, Joseph

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Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Gary, Roman

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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