Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Bill Nye

Best Quotes about Humor

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

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

Dick Clark

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

Mel Brooks

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

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

Eva Hoffman

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

Horace Walpole

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

Hughes, Langston

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

Martin, Steve

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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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

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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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Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.

Mary Hirsch

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bruce, Lenny

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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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

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Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

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

Seabury, David

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

Williamson, Nicol

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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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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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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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.

Martin, Steve

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Herold, Don

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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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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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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

Horace

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

Albee, Edward

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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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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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