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

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

Proverb, Chinese

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

Warhol, Andy

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

Williamson, Nicol

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

Albee, Edward

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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

Lewis Mumford

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

Herold, Don

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

James Thurber

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

Horace

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Joubert, Joseph

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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

Mel Brooks

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Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Martin, Steve

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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 by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

Edward De Bono

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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

A. Whitney Brown

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

Socrates

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The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.

Knox, Ronald

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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

Seabury, David

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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

Dick Clark

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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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There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.

Procter, J. J.

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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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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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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.