Motivational Quotes

Humor

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

- T. S. Eliot

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.

Martin, Steve

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

Mel Brooks

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

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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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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 hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.

Knox, Ronald

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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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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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There is this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means; draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horace Walpole

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

Socrates

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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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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Trilling, Lionel

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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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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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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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

Strachey, Lionel

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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.