Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Wilson, Flip

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Mel Brooks

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

Clark, Dick

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

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.

Procter, J. J.

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

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

Gary, Roman

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

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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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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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

James Thurber

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

Horace Walpole

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

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

Edward De Bono

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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Knox, Ronald

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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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Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.

Mary Hirsch

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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

Hughes, Langston

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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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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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

Rourke, Constance

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Diller, Phyllis

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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