Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Mary Hirsch

Best Quotes about Humor

1.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

2.

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

3.

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

Eva Hoffman

4.

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

A. Whitney Brown

5.

Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.

Salma Hayek

6.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Twain, Mark

7.

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

8.

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

Horace Walpole

9.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

10.

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

11.

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

12.

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

Johnson, Samuel

13.

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

14.

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

15.

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

Lewis Mumford

16.

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

17.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

18.

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

19.

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

Williamson, Nicol

20.

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

Herold, Don

21.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

22.

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

Clark, Dick

23.

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor.

Maugham, W. Somerset

24.

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

Eco, Umberto

25.

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

26.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

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

Mel Brooks

28.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

29.

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

30.

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

Edward De Bono

31.

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

Hughes, Langston

32.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

33.

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

Albee, Edward

34.

Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

36.

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

Knox, Ronald

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Martin, Steve

40.

The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

Bruce, Lenny

41.

What's the point of havin'a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?

Jeph Jacques

42.

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

43.

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

44.

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

45.

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

46.

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

47.

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

Dick Clark

48.

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

Diller, Phyllis

49.

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

50.

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