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

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

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

James Thurber

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

Wilson, Flip

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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

A. Whitney Brown

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

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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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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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Gary, Roman

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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

Herold, Don

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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

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

Lewis Mumford

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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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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Knox, Ronald

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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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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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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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

Mel Brooks

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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.