Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Edward De Bono

Best Quotes about Humor

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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

Horace Walpole

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

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Seabury, David

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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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

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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

Albee, Edward

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

Eco, Umberto

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

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

Gary, Roman

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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

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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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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

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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Horace

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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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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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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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

Fredrich

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

Socrates

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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

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

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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Twain, Mark

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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 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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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