Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Clark, Dick

Best Quotes about Humor

1.

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

A. Whitney Brown

2.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

3.

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

4.

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.

5.

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

6.

I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice.

Johnson, Samuel

7.

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

Bill Nye

8.

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

Martin, Steve

9.

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

10.

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

Warhol, Andy

11.

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

Charlie Chaplin

12.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

13.

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

Martin, Steve

14.

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

Eco, Umberto

15.

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

16.

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

Seabury, David

17.

Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth -- a sense of humor.

18.

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

Edward De Bono

19.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

20.

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

James Thurber

21.

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

Mel Brooks

22.

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

23.

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

Fredrich

24.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

25.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

26.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

27.

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

28.

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

Albee, Edward

29.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

30.

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

Bruce, Lenny

31.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

32.

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

Gary, Roman

33.

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

Clark, Dick

34.

Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

James Thurber

36.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

37.

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

38.

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.

Wilson, Flip

39.

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

40.

Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.

Mary Hirsch

41.

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

Williamson, Nicol

42.

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

43.

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

Lewis Mumford

45.

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

Joubert, Joseph

46.

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

47.

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

48.

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

Maclaine, Shirley

49.

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

50.

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