Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Charlie Chaplin

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

Seabury, David

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Gary, Roman

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Williamson, Nicol

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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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

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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

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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

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

Jeph Jacques

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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Diller, Phyllis

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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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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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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 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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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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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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Where ever you find humor, you find pathos close by it side.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Martin, Steve

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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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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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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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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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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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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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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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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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.