Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

Best Quotes about Humor

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

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

Knox, Ronald

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

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

Martin, Steve

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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Seabury, David

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

Martin, Steve

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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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

Strachey, Lionel

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Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.

Mark Twain

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Charlie Chaplin

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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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

Diller, Phyllis

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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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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 also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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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 nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

Socrates

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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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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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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

A. Whitney Brown

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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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Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.

Salma Hayek

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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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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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

Williamson, Nicol

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

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

Fredrich

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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