Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Albee, Edward

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

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

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

Bill Nye

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

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

Warhol, Andy

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

Hughes, Langston

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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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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 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

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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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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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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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

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

Socrates

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

Charlie Chaplin

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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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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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There is this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means; draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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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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.

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

Martin, Steve

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Herold, Don

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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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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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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

Horace Walpole

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

Williamson, Nicol

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

Horace