Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Charlie Chaplin

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Conrad, Joseph

The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Gary, Roman

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

Bill Nye

An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.

Rourke, Constance

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

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Horace

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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

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

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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

Edward De Bono

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

Diller, Phyllis

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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Socrates

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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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

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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

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

Mel Brooks

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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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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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

James Thurber

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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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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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Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

Muir, Frank

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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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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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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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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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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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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