Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

Best Quotes about Humor

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

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

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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

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

James Thurber

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

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

10.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

11.

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

Mel Brooks

12.

Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

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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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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

Bill Nye

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

19.

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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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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There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.

Procter, J. J.

22.

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

23.

I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice.

Johnson, Samuel

24.

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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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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I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

Nelson, Lord

27.

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

28.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

29.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

30.

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

31.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Knox, Ronald

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

35.

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

Martin, Steve

39.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

40.

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

Charlie Chaplin

41.

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

42.

There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

Eva Hoffman

43.

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

44.

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

45.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

46.

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Horace Walpole

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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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