Motivational Quotes

Humor

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Proverb, Chinese

There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.

Procter, J. J.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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

James Thurber

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

Fredrich

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

Diller, Phyllis

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An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.

Rourke, Constance

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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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

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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Martin, Steve

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

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One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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

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

Wilson, Flip

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

A. Whitney Brown

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

Herold, Don

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

Dick Clark

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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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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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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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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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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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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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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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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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

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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