Motivational Quotes

Humor

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

- Seldes, Gilbert

Best Quotes about Humor

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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

Socrates

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

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

A. Whitney Brown

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

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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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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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

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

Nelson, Lord

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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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Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

Kleiser, Grenville

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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 joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

Fredrich

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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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

James Thurber

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

25.

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

Warhol, Andy

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

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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 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

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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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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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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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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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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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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

Horace Walpole

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

Horace

42.

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 may be big business but it isn't pretty.

Martin, Steve

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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 by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

Edward De Bono

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

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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

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

Wilson, Flip

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Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

Martin, Steve