Motivational Quotes

Humor

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Trilling, Lionel

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

Eco, Umberto

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

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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.

John Kenneth Galbraith

11.

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

12.

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

Fredrich

13.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Horace

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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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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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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Gary, Roman

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Martin, Steve

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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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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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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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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Lewis Mumford

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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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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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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

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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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The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

Socrates

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

Mary Hirsch

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Humor is, I think, the sublets and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers

Rosten, Leo

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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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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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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

42.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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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 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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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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

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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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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan