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

1.

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.

2.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

3.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Twain, Mark

4.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

5.

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

6.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

7.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

8.

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

9.

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

Mel Brooks

10.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

James Thurber

11.

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

Warhol, Andy

12.

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

Clark, Dick

13.

The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

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

15.

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

16.

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

17.

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

Socrates

18.

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

Edward De Bono

19.

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

Martin, Steve

20.

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

21.

I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice.

Johnson, Samuel

22.

Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

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

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.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

26.

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

27.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

28.

One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.

La Bruyere, Jean De

29.

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

30.

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

31.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

32.

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

Wilson, Flip

33.

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

Martin, Steve

34.

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

35.

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

Horace Walpole

36.

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

37.

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

Joubert, Joseph

38.

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

Charlie Chaplin

39.

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

Bruce, Lenny

40.

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

41.

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

James Thurber

42.

The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

43.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

44.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.