Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Best Quotes about Humor

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.

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

Williamson, Nicol

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

Gary, Roman

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

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

Eva Hoffman

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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

Martin, Steve

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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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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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Bruce, Lenny

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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

Procter, J. J.

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

James Thurber

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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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

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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Herold, Don

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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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

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The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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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

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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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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

Albee, Edward

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

Conrad, Joseph

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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

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

Jeph Jacques

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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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