Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Humor

Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Edward De Bono

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

Seabury, David

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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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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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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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 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 just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Fredrich

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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

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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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

Martin, Steve

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

Horace

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

Knox, Ronald

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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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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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

Mel Brooks

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

Procter, J. J.

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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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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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

Twain, Mark