Motivational Quotes

Humor

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

- Nelson, Lord

Best Quotes about Humor

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

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

Jeph Jacques

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

Bruce, Lenny

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life. Its mode has often been swift and coarse and ruthless, beyond art and beyond established civilization. It has engaged in warfare against the established heritage, against the bonds of pioneer existence. Its objective --the unconscious objective of a disunited people --has seemed to be that of creating fresh bonds, a new unity, the semblance of a society and the rounded completion of an American type.

Rourke, Constance

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

Diller, Phyllis

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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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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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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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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Isn't it sad how some people can't be funny, so they have to settle for being obnoxious?

24.

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

Socrates

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

Gary, Roman

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

Clark, Dick

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Trilling, Lionel

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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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

Rourke, Constance

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

Albee, Edward

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