Motivational Quotes

Humor

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

- Proverb, Latin

Best Quotes about Humor

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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

Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.

Mary Hirsch

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

James Thurber

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

Horace Walpole

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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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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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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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

A. Whitney Brown

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

Williamson, Nicol

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Charlie Chaplin

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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

Horace

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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

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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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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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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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