Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Martin, Steve

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

Dick Clark

Humor is, I think, the sublets and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers

Rosten, Leo

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

11.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Knox, Ronald

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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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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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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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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Herold, Don

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

Fredrich

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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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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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

Bill Nye

25.

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

Diller, Phyllis

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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 absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

Mary Hirsch

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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

Horace Walpole

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

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

Socrates

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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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