Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Humor

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

Joubert, Joseph

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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.

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

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.

Wilson, Flip

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

Williamson, Nicol

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Herold, Don

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

Albee, Edward

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

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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

Knox, Ronald

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Strachey, Lionel

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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Martin, Steve

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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 has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life. Its mode has often been swift and coarse and ruthless, beyond art and beyond established civilization. It has engaged in warfare against the established heritage, against the bonds of pioneer existence. Its objective --the unconscious objective of a disunited people --has seemed to be that of creating fresh bonds, a new unity, the semblance of a society and the rounded completion of an American type.

Rourke, Constance

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

Eco, Umberto

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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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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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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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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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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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

Diller, Phyllis

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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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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.