Motivational Quotes

Humor

If you're at school and you're not that bright or good-looking or popular or whatever, and one day you say something and someone laughs, well, you sort of grab onto it, don't you? you think, well I run funny and I've got this stupid big face and big thighs and no-one fancies me, but at least I can make people laugh. And It's such a nice feeling, making someone laugh, that maybe you get a bit reliant on it. Like, if you're not funny then you're not... anything.

- David Nicholls

Best Quotes about Humor

1.

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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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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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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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

Irving, Washington

5.

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

Horace

6.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

7.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

8.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

9.

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

Johnson, Samuel

10.

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

11.

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

12.

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

13.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

14.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

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

Conrad, Joseph

16.

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

Herold, Don

17.

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

Eco, Umberto

18.

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

Hughes, Langston

19.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

20.

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

21.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

22.

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

23.

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

Warhol, Andy

24.

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

Jeph Jacques

25.

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.

26.

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

Socrates

27.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

28.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

29.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

30.

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

Albee, Edward

31.

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

Bruce, Lenny

32.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

33.

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

34.

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

35.

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

Proverb, Chinese

36.

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

37.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

38.

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

39.

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

A. Whitney Brown

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Martin, Steve

44.

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

45.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

46.

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

Joubert, Joseph

47.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

48.

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