Motivational Quotes

Humor

As a person is so must you humor them.

- Terence

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Charlie Chaplin

Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

Bill Nye

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

Knox, Ronald

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

Clark, Dick

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

Proverb, Chinese

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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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 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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One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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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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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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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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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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There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.

Joubert, Joseph

23.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

24.

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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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

Martin, Steve

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Gary, Roman

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Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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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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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 sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Seabury, David

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.

Procter, J. J.

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

Herold, Don

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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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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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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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