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

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Martin, Steve

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Mel Brooks

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Strachey, Lionel

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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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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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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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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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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.

Horace

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

Nelson, Lord

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Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic good-natured laughter and is favored by the healing-power gang. Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.

King, Florence

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

Knox, Ronald

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

Horace Walpole

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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 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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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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

Procter, J. J.

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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 rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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

Clark, Dick

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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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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

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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

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Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

Bill Nye

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

Fredrich

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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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Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.