Motivational Quotes

Humor

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

- Eco, Umberto

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Williamson, Nicol

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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

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

Procter, J. J.

Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Clark, Dick

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

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

Martin, Steve

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

11.

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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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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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

14.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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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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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

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What's the point of havin'a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?

Jeph Jacques

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

Edward De Bono

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All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

Charlie Chaplin

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

James Thurber

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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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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Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Horace

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

Bruce, Lenny

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

Albee, Edward

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

Mel Brooks

36.

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

37.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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

Trilling, Lionel

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

Horace Walpole

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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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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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