Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Bruce, Lenny

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Salma Hayek

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Socrates

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Trilling, Lionel

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Seabury, David

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Williamson, Nicol

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

Charlie Chaplin

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

Gary, Roman

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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

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

Fredrich

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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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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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

Martin, Steve

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

Albee, Edward

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley