Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

Best Quotes about Humor

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

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

Socrates

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

Knox, Ronald

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

Fredrich

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

Maclaine, Shirley

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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

Hughes, Langston

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

A. Whitney Brown

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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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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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Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

Muir, Frank

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

Mel Brooks

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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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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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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Lewis Mumford

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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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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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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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 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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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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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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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her.

Williamson, Nicol

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

Gary, Roman

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

Seabury, David

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

James Thurber

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.