Motivational Quotes

Humor

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

- Zimmermann, Johann Georg

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

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

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

Nelson, Lord

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

Hughes, Langston

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Seabury, David

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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

Albee, Edward

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

Fredrich

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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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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.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

A. Whitney Brown

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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

Knox, Ronald

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

Bruce, Lenny

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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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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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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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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