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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
- Peter Ustinov
Humor Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Humor

1.
A poor joke must invent its own laughter.
Proverb, Latin

2.
Where ever you find humor, you find pathos close by it side.
Whipple, Edwin P.

3.
We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.
Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

4.
Even the gods love jokes.
Plato

5.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Dick Clark

6.
A rich man's joke is always funny.
Brown, Thomas Edward

7.
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
James Thurber

8.
There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.
Eva Hoffman

9.
The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh
Reiner, Carl

10.
Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
Seabury, David

11.
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
Twain, Mark

12.
I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?
Warhol, Andy

13.
An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.
Rourke, Constance

14.
A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.
Strachey, Lionel

15.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Gary, Roman

16.
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks

17.
The secret to humor is surprise.
Aristotle

18.
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
Horace

19.
Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth -- a sense of humor.

20.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.
Beecher, Henry Ward

21.
Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.
Zimmermann, Johann Georg

22.
The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.
Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.
Sondheim, Stephen

24.
By blood a king, in heart a clown.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred

25.
Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
Colton, Charles Caleb

26.
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward De Bono

27.
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

28.
Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
Wilson, Flip

29.
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

30.
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

31.
Fortune and humor govern the world.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.
I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice.
Johnson, Samuel

33.
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Charlie Chaplin

34.
The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
Eco, Umberto

35.
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
Lewis Mumford

36.
A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella.
David Nicholls

37.
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

38.
Humor is a whisper from the soul, imploring mind and body to relax, let go and be at peace again.

39.
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
Fredrich

40.
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

41.
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

42.
The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
Socrates

43.
Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.
Martin, Steve

44.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks

45.
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

46.
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

47.
The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
Bruce, Lenny

48.
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

49.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
T. S. Eliot

50.
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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