Motivational Quotes

Humor

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

- Reiner, Carl

Best Quotes about Humor

One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Diller, Phyllis

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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

Clark, Dick

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

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Williamson, Nicol

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

Martin, Steve

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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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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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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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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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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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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Mary Hirsch

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

Fredrich

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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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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Strachey, Lionel

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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Knox, Ronald

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

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Edward De Bono

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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

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

Horace

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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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