Motivational Quotes

Humor

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

- Robert Benchley

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Eva Hoffman

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

Seabury, David

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

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

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

Clark, Dick

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

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

Williamson, Nicol

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

Hughes, Langston

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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

Eco, Umberto

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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people --that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

Thurber, James

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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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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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

Mel Brooks

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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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Socrates

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

James Thurber

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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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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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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

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