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

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

2.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

3.

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

Martin, Steve

4.

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

Dick Clark

5.

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

Hughes, Langston

6.

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

7.

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

8.

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

Lewis Mumford

9.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

11.

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

12.

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

13.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

14.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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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

16.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

17.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

18.

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

Nelson, Lord

19.

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

Trilling, Lionel

20.

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

Edward De Bono

21.

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

Williamson, Nicol

22.

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

James Thurber

24.

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

25.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

26.

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

Socrates

27.

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

28.

Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.

Salma Hayek

29.

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

30.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

James Thurber

31.

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

Eva Hoffman

32.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

33.

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

Seabury, David

34.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

39.

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

Knox, Ronald

40.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

42.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

43.

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

44.

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

Proverb, Chinese

45.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

46.

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

47.

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

A. Whitney Brown

48.

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

Horace

49.

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.

50.

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