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

1.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

2.

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

3.

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

4.

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

Joubert, Joseph

5.

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

Jeph Jacques

6.

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

Williamson, Nicol

7.

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

Mary Hirsch

8.

Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

9.

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

Maclaine, Shirley

10.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

11.

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

12.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

13.

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

Edward De Bono

14.

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

15.

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

16.

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

Herold, Don

17.

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

Hughes, Langston

18.

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

19.

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

20.

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

Clark, Dick

21.

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

Bruce, Lenny

22.

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

23.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

24.

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

25.

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

Warhol, Andy

26.

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

Procter, J. J.

27.

Humor is, I think, the sublets and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers

Rosten, Leo

28.

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

Nelson, Lord

29.

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

Martin, Steve

30.

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

31.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

32.

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

Fredrich

33.

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

34.

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

Knox, Ronald

35.

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

Horace Walpole

36.

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.

37.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

38.

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

39.

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

Dick Clark

40.

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

41.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

42.

There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

Eva Hoffman

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

46.

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

47.

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

Charlie Chaplin

48.

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

49.

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

50.

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