Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Whipple, Edwin P.

Best Quotes about Humor

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

Strachey, Lionel

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

Proverb, Chinese

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Horace

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

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

Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

Bill Nye

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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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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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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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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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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

Salma Hayek

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They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

Hemingway, Ernest

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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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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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

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

Williamson, Nicol

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Fredrich

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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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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

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

Socrates

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

Herold, Don

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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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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Nelson, Lord