Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

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Best Quotes about Humor

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

Bill Nye

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

Fredrich

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

Horace Walpole

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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

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

Mel Brooks

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

Herold, Don

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

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Mary Hirsch

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

Proverb, Chinese

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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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 the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Seabury, David

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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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

Edward De Bono

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

Trilling, Lionel

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

James Thurber

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Gary, Roman

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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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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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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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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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

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Humor is, I think, the sublets and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers

Rosten, Leo

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

Wilson, Flip

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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

Eco, Umberto

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As a person is so must you humor them.