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

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

Nelson, Lord

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Clark, Dick

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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

Mary Hirsch

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Horace Walpole

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

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

Eva Hoffman

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

Knox, Ronald

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

Edward De Bono

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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

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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 also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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

Seabury, David

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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

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

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

Albee, Edward

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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

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Horace

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Gary, Roman

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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

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

Fredrich

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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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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon