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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

2.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

3.

Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.

Mary Hirsch

4.

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

Joubert, Joseph

5.

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

6.

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

Dick Clark

7.

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

8.

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

Martin, Steve

9.

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

Nelson, Lord

10.

An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.

Rourke, Constance

11.

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

12.

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

13.

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

Johnson, Samuel

14.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

15.

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

Knox, Ronald

16.

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

Edward De Bono

17.

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

18.

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

Wilson, Flip

19.

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

Warhol, Andy

20.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

Albee, Edward

21.

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

22.

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

23.

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

Proverb, Chinese

24.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

25.

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

Horace Walpole

26.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Clark, Dick

30.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

32.

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

33.

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

Salma Hayek

34.

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

Procter, J. J.

35.

There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

Eva Hoffman

36.

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

Strachey, Lionel

37.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

38.

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

39.

All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.

Bruce, Lenny

40.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

45.

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

Hughes, Langston

46.

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