Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

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Best Quotes about Humor

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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

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

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

Clark, Dick

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

Rourke, Constance

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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 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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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Fortune and humor govern the world.

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Jeph Jacques

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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

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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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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.

Horace

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

Gary, Roman

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

Martin, Steve

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

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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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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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I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

Albee, Edward

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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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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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Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.