Motivational Quotes

Humor

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

- Sterne, Laurence

Best Quotes about Humor

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Nelson, Lord

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

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

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

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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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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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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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 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 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 the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Proverb, Chinese

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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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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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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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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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

Irving, Washington

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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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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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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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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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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An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.