Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Mel Brooks

Best Quotes about Humor

1.

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

2.

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

A. Whitney Brown

3.

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

4.

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

5.

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

6.

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

7.

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

Edward De Bono

8.

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

Martin, Steve

9.

An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.

Rourke, Constance

10.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

14.

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

15.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

16.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

Conrad, Joseph

17.

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

Charlie Chaplin

18.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

19.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

20.

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

21.

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

Proverb, Chinese

22.

Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

24.

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

Clark, Dick

25.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

26.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

27.

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

Mel Brooks

28.

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

29.

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

30.

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

Eco, Umberto

31.

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

32.

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

Dick Clark

33.

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

Hughes, Langston

34.

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

Joubert, Joseph

35.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

36.

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

Fredrich

37.

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

Trilling, Lionel

38.

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

39.

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

Gary, Roman

40.

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

41.

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

Warhol, Andy

42.

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

Lewis Mumford

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.

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

Knox, Ronald

45.

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

Twain, Mark

46.

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

47.

By blood a king, in heart a clown.