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.

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

2.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

3.

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

Knox, Ronald

4.

Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists in the room will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke.

Keillor, Garrison

5.

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

Horace Walpole

6.

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

7.

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

Williamson, Nicol

8.

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

9.

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

10.

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

Lewis Mumford

11.

One never needs their humor as much as when they argue with a fool.

Proverb, Chinese

12.

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

13.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

14.

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

Diller, Phyllis

15.

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

Clark, Dick

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

19.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

20.

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

Martin, Steve

21.

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

Gary, Roman

22.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

24.

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

Strachey, Lionel

25.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

James Thurber

29.

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

Hughes, Langston

30.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

31.

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

32.

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.

33.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

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

35.

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

Bill Nye

36.

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

37.

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

Jeph Jacques

38.

The secret to humor is surprise.