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.

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

Proverb, Chinese

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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

Nelson, Lord

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

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

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

James Thurber

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Dick Clark

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

Horace Walpole

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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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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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We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

Horace

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

Hughes, Langston

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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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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.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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 secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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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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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Martin, Steve

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Isn't it sad how some people can't be funny, so they have to settle for being obnoxious?

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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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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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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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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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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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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

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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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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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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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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