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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Procter, J. J.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

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

Albee, Edward

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Fredrich

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

A. Whitney Brown

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her.

Williamson, Nicol

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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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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

31.

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

Warhol, Andy

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Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.

Salma Hayek

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Diller, Phyllis

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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

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

Charlie Chaplin

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

Herold, Don

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

Hughes, Langston

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

Horace Walpole

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