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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
Humor Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Humor

1.
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward De Bono

2.
Isn't it sad how some people can't be funny, so they have to settle for being obnoxious?

3.
Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.
Salma Hayek

4.
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
Twain, Mark

5.
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

6.
The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
Eco, Umberto

7.
The secret to humor is surprise.
Aristotle

8.
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

9.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Gary, Roman

10.
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

11.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks

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

14.
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
James Thurber

15.
The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
Socrates

16.
The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks

18.
The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.
Knox, Ronald

19.
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
Albee, Edward

20.
Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.
Zimmermann, Johann Georg

21.
Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.
Seldes, Gilbert

22.
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

23.
Where ever you find humor, you find pathos close by it side.
Whipple, Edwin P.

24.
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

25.
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

26.
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Rosten, Leo

27.
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
Hughes, Langston

28.
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
A. Whitney Brown

29.
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov

30.
Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.
Martin, Steve

31.
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

32.
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
Robert Benchley

33.
I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice.
Johnson, Samuel

34.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.
Clark, Dick

35.
Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
Martin, Steve

36.
A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.
Strachey, Lionel

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

39.
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

40.
Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
Borge, Victor

41.
Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
Wilson, Flip

42.
There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
Joubert, Joseph

43.
Even the gods love jokes.
Plato

44.
If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her.
Williamson, Nicol

45.
Humor is a whisper from the soul, imploring mind and body to relax, let go and be at peace again.

46.
There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.
Procter, J. J.

47.
Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
Diller, Phyllis

48.
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Gandhi, Mahatma

49.
By blood a king, in heart a clown.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred

50.
Comedy is a tragedy plus time.
Burnett, Carol


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