Motivational Quotes

Humor

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

- Zimmermann, Johann Georg

Best Quotes about Humor

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

4.

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

5.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

6.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

7.

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

8.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

Albee, Edward

9.

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

10.

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

11.

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

Martin, Steve

12.

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

Rourke, Constance

13.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

14.

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

Eco, Umberto

15.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Twain, Mark

16.

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

Proverb, Chinese

17.

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

Knox, Ronald

18.

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

Warhol, Andy

19.

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

20.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

21.

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

Mary Hirsch

22.

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

23.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

24.

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

25.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

26.

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

Horace Walpole

27.

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

28.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

29.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

30.

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

Clark, Dick

31.

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

A. Whitney Brown

32.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

33.

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

Salma Hayek

34.

Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

36.

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.

37.

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

Seabury, David

38.

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

39.

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

Williamson, Nicol

40.

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

41.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

42.

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

43.

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

Trilling, Lionel

44.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

45.

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

Edward De Bono

46.

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

Herold, Don

47.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

48.

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

Hughes, Langston

49.

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

50.

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan