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

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

Wilson, Flip

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

Dick Clark

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

Herold, Don

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

Eco, Umberto

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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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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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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

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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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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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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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

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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

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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

19.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Mary Hirsch

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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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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

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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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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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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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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Martin, Steve

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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

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.