Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Dick Clark

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Gary, Roman

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

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.

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

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

Warhol, Andy

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

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

Mel Brooks

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

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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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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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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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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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Dick Clark

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

Diller, Phyllis

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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

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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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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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

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

Mary Hirsch

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Socrates

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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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

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

Herold, Don

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

Williamson, Nicol

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