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

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

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Wilson, Flip

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

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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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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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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Edward De Bono

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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

James Thurber

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Martin, Steve

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Salma Hayek

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

Hughes, Langston

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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Diller, Phyllis

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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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

Bill Nye

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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

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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

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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

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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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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

Jeph Jacques

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

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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

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

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