Motivational Quotes

Humor

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

- Sondheim, Stephen

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Mary Hirsch

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

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

Fredrich

What's the point of havin'a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?

Jeph Jacques

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

Clark, Dick

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

A. Whitney Brown

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hughes, Langston

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A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

Herold, Don

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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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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

25.

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Conrad, Joseph

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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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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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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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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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Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

Lewis Mumford

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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

Gary, Roman

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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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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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All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

Charlie Chaplin

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

Strachey, Lionel

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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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