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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
Humor Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Humor

1.
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

2.
Comedy is a tragedy plus time.
Burnett, Carol

3.
There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.
Procter, J. J.

4.
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward De Bono

5.
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

6.
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Charlie Chaplin

7.
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

8.
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

9.
If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her.
Williamson, Nicol

10.
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
Nelson, Lord

11.
A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
Conrad, Joseph

12.
What's the point of havin'a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?
Jeph Jacques

13.
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

14.
Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.
Pico Iyer

15.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.
Beecher, Henry Ward

16.
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Gandhi, Mahatma

17.
Humor is a whisper from the soul, imploring mind and body to relax, let go and be at peace again.

18.
We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.
Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

19.
Humor -- the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.

20.
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

21.
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
Herold, Don

22.
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

23.
To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

24.
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
Twain, Mark

25.
I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?
Warhol, Andy

26.
The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh
Reiner, Carl

27.
A rich man's joke is always funny.
Brown, Thomas Edward

28.
Isn't it sad how some people can't be funny, so they have to settle for being obnoxious?

29.
The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks

31.
Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
Diller, Phyllis

32.
The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

33.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Gary, Roman

34.
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

35.
Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
Muggeridge, Malcolm

36.
WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.
Katz, Ellie

37.
What some people invent the rest enlarge.
Swift, Jonathan

38.
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

39.
Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.
Salma Hayek

40.
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole

41.
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

42.
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

43.
Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?
Colby, Frank Moore

44.
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

45.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Dick Clark

46.
By blood a king, in heart a clown.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred

47.
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

48.
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

49.
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
Robert Benchley

50.
Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
Bill Nye


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