Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

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Best Quotes about Humor

1.

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

Seabury, David

2.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

3.

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

4.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.

Beecher, Henry Ward

5.

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

Eco, Umberto

6.

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

Warhol, Andy

7.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

8.

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

Martin, Steve

9.

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

Lewis Mumford

10.

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

11.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

12.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

13.

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

14.

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

15.

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

16.

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

Diller, Phyllis

17.

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

Williamson, Nicol

18.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.

Wilson, Flip

22.

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

23.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

25.

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

James Thurber

26.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

27.

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

28.

Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.

Salma Hayek

29.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

30.

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

31.

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

32.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

33.

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

Knox, Ronald

34.

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

Albee, Edward

35.

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

Clark, Dick

36.

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

Mel Brooks

37.

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

Horace

38.

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

Horace Walpole

39.

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

Proverb, Chinese

40.

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

41.

I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice.

Johnson, Samuel

42.

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

A. Whitney Brown

43.

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

Socrates

44.

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

45.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

46.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

47.

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

Herold, Don

48.

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