Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- A. Whitney Brown

Best Quotes about Humor

1.

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.

2.

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

Mel Brooks

3.

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

4.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

5.

What's the point of havin'a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?

Jeph Jacques

6.

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

Eva Hoffman

7.

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

8.

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

9.

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

10.

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

Johnson, Samuel

11.

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

James Thurber

12.

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

Albee, Edward

13.

One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.

La Bruyere, Jean De

14.

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

15.

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

Procter, J. J.

16.

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

17.

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

Warhol, Andy

18.

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

Martin, Steve

19.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

20.

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

James Thurber

21.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

22.

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

Charlie Chaplin

23.

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

24.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

25.

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

26.

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

Gary, Roman

27.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

28.

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

29.

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

Lewis Mumford

30.

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

31.

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

32.

The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

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

Knox, Ronald

34.

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

35.

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

36.

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

37.

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

Fredrich

38.

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

Nelson, Lord

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

42.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

43.

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

44.

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

45.

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

Trilling, Lionel

46.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

47.

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

A. Whitney Brown

48.

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