Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Maclaine, Shirley

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Edward De Bono

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

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

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

Herold, Don

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

Horace

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

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

Seabury, David

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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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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

Mary Hirsch

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

Horace Walpole

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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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Where ever you find humor, you find pathos close by it side.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Socrates

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Williamson, Nicol

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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

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

Lewis Mumford

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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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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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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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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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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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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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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

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

Knox, Ronald

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

Fredrich

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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

Gary, Roman