Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Herold, Don

Best Quotes about Humor

1.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

2.

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

Mary Hirsch

3.

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

Mel Brooks

4.

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

Eco, Umberto

5.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

6.

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

7.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

8.

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

Horace Walpole

9.

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

Proverb, Chinese

10.

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

Clark, Dick

11.

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

Charlie Chaplin

12.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

13.

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

14.

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

18.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

20.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

21.

Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

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

23.

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

24.

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

Hughes, Langston

25.

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

Rourke, Constance

26.

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

Truman, Harry S

27.

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

Seabury, David

28.

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

29.

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

30.

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

31.

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

A. Whitney Brown

32.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

33.

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Fredrich

37.

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

Eva Hoffman

38.

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

39.

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