Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Edward De Bono

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

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

Trilling, Lionel

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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

Seabury, David

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Eva Hoffman

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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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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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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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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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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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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

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

Eco, Umberto

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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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

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

Williamson, Nicol

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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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Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic good-natured laughter and is favored by the healing-power gang. Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.

King, Florence

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

Horace

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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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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.