Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Seabury, David

Best Quotes about Humor

The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Conrad, Joseph

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

Mel Brooks

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

Proverb, Chinese

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

Bruce, Lenny

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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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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I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

Albee, Edward

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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

James Thurber

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Eva Hoffman

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Fredrich

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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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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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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

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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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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 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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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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Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.

Smith, Alfred E.

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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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