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

1.

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

Hughes, Langston

2.

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

Mary Hirsch

3.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

4.

The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

Bruce, Lenny

5.

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

Edward De Bono

6.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

7.

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

Strachey, Lionel

8.

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

9.

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

10.

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

Socrates

11.

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

12.

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

13.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

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

Johnson, Samuel

15.

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

Rourke, Constance

16.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

17.

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

Diller, Phyllis

18.

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

Trilling, Lionel

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

Gandhi, Mahatma

24.

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

25.

Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

Colton, Charles Caleb

26.

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

Gary, Roman

27.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

Conrad, Joseph

28.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

29.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

30.

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

Salma Hayek

31.

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

Eco, Umberto

32.

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

33.

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

Procter, J. J.

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

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

37.

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

A. Whitney Brown

38.

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

Horace

39.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

40.

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

41.

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

Williamson, Nicol

42.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

Charlie Chaplin

43.

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

44.

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

Proverb, Chinese

45.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

46.

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

47.

A rich man's joke is always funny.