Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Edward De Bono

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Martin, Steve

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

Dick Clark

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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

An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.

Rourke, Constance

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

Hughes, Langston

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

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

Edward De Bono

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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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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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Mel Brooks

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

Gary, Roman

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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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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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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 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

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I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

Warhol, Andy

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

Herold, Don

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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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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, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists in the room will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke.

Keillor, Garrison

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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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Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

Kleiser, Grenville

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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

Knox, Ronald

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Martin, Steve

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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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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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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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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Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.

Mary Hirsch

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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

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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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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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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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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

Williamson, Nicol

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Horace Walpole

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot