Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

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Best Quotes about Humor

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Knox, Ronald

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

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

Albee, Edward

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Trilling, Lionel

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

Horace Walpole

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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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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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

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

Jeph Jacques

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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

Fredrich

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

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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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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

Strachey, Lionel

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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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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

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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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

Proverb, Chinese

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

Martin, Steve

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

Socrates

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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 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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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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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

Nelson, Lord

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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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Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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 is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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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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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De