Motivational Quotes
Humor
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.
Best Quotes about Humor
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
Comedy is a tragedy plus time.
Burnett, Carol
There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.
Procter, J. J.
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward De Bono
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
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Charlie Chaplin
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her.
Williamson, Nicol
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
Nelson, Lord
A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
Conrad, Joseph
What's the point of havin'a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?
Jeph Jacques
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
Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.
Pico Iyer
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.
Beecher, Henry Ward
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Humor is a whisper from the soul, imploring mind and body to relax, let go and be at peace again.
We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.
Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of
Humor -- the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.
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
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
Herold, Don
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
To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
Burgess, (Frank) Gelett
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
Twain, Mark
I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?
Warhol, Andy
The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh
Reiner, Carl
A rich man's joke is always funny.
Brown, Thomas Edward
Isn't it sad how some people can't be funny, so they have to settle for being obnoxious?
The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks
Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
Diller, Phyllis
The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Gary, Roman
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Bonaparte, Napoleon
Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
Muggeridge, Malcolm
WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.
Katz, Ellie
What some people invent the rest enlarge.
Swift, Jonathan
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.
Salma Hayek
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole
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
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
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
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
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Dick Clark
By blood a king, in heart a clown.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
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
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
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
Robert Benchley
Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
Bill Nye
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