Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Bill Nye

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

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

Wilson, Flip

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

A. Whitney Brown

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

Herold, Don

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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

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

Horace Walpole

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

Seabury, David

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

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Proverb, Chinese

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There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

Eva Hoffman

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Lewis Mumford

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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

Martin, Steve

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

Clark, Dick

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

Procter, J. J.

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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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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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

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Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

Muir, Frank

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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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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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