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.

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

2.

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

Proverb, Chinese

3.

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

Bruce, Lenny

4.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

5.

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

6.

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

7.

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

8.

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

Williamson, Nicol

9.

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.

Wilson, Flip

10.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

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

Socrates

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

15.

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

A. Whitney Brown

16.

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

17.

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

18.

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

Martin, Steve

19.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

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

Conrad, Joseph

21.

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

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.

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.

24.

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

25.

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

Joubert, Joseph

26.

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

27.

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

Martin, Steve

28.

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

29.

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

Knox, Ronald

30.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

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

Fredrich

32.

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

Charlie Chaplin

33.

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

34.

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

Horace

35.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

36.

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

Herold, Don

37.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

38.

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

Eva Hoffman

39.

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

Strachey, Lionel

40.

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

Trilling, Lionel

41.

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

42.

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

Twain, Mark

43.

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

44.

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

Lewis Mumford

45.

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

Eco, Umberto

46.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

47.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

48.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

49.

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

50.

Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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