Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Edward De Bono

Best Quotes about Humor

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

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

Lewis Mumford

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

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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

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

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

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Horace Walpole

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

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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

Socrates

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

Albee, Edward

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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Herold, Don

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Eco, Umberto

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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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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Procter, J. J.

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

James Thurber

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

Clark, Dick

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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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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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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

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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