Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.

Diller, Phyllis

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Martin, Steve

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

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Horace

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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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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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A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

Conrad, Joseph

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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

Mary Hirsch

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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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

Williamson, Nicol

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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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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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

Mel Brooks

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

Horace Walpole

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

Edward De Bono

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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