Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Salma Hayek

Best Quotes about Humor

1.

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

Diller, Phyllis

2.

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

Nelson, Lord

3.

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

Johnson, Samuel

4.

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

5.

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

Hughes, Langston

6.

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

7.

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

James Thurber

8.

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

Trilling, Lionel

9.

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

10.

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

Fredrich

11.

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

12.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

13.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

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

Seabury, David

15.

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Proverb, Chinese

19.

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

Conrad, Joseph

20.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

21.

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

Williamson, Nicol

22.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

23.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

24.

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

25.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

26.

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

Salma Hayek

27.

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

28.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

A. Whitney Brown

32.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

33.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

34.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

35.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

36.

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

Joubert, Joseph

37.

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

38.

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

Socrates

39.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

40.

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

Clark, Dick

41.

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

42.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

43.

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

44.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

45.

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

46.

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

Edward De Bono

47.

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

48.

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

49.

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

Gary, Roman

50.

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

Wilson, Flip