Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Albee, Edward

Best Quotes about Humor

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

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

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

Horace

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

Twain, Mark

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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Dick Clark

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

A. Whitney Brown

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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

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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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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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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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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

Williamson, Nicol

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Charlie Chaplin

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

Jeph Jacques

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

Rourke, Constance

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Fredrich

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

Nelson, Lord

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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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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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

Bill Nye

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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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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Maclaine, Shirley