Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Warhol, Andy

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Rourke, Constance

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

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

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

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

Lewis Mumford

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

A. Whitney Brown

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

Clark, Dick

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

Trilling, Lionel

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

Seabury, David

11.

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

Diller, Phyllis

12.

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

13.

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

14.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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

Wilson, Flip

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

Knox, Ronald

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

Fredrich

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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

21.

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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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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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

Irving, Washington

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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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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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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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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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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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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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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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Martin, Steve

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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.