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A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
- Horace
Humor Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Humor

1.
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
Lewis Mumford

2.
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

3.
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

4.
The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
Bruce, Lenny

5.
There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
Joubert, Joseph

6.
For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
Sterne, Laurence

7.
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

8.
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
James Thurber

9.
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

10.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.
Beecher, Henry Ward

11.
One never needs their humor as much as when they argue with a fool.
Proverb, Chinese

12.
Where ever you find humor, you find pathos close by it side.
Whipple, Edwin P.

13.
Humor is a whisper from the soul, imploring mind and body to relax, let go and be at peace again.

14.
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

15.
There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.
Procter, J. J.

16.
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
Carlyle, Thomas

17.
I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?
Warhol, Andy

18.
Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
Seabury, David

19.
Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.
Seldes, Gilbert

20.
Humor -- the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.

21.
Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
Wilson, Flip

22.
Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
Bill Nye

23.
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks

24.
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov

25.
I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice.
Johnson, Samuel

26.
A rich man's joke is always funny.
Brown, Thomas Edward

27.
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
A. Whitney Brown

28.
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

29.
Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.
Salma Hayek

30.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Gary, Roman

31.
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

32.
Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
Martin, Steve

33.
The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.
Knox, Ronald

34.
A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
Conrad, Joseph

35.
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
Twain, Mark

36.
The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
Eco, Umberto

37.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Dick Clark

38.
Comedy is a tragedy plus time.
Burnett, Carol

39.
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

40.
Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
Colton, Charles Caleb

41.
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

42.
Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
Diller, Phyllis

43.
There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.
Eva Hoffman

44.
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

45.
The best defence against misguided arrogance is a keen sense of humour.
Kathryn L. Nelson

46.
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

47.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.
Clark, Dick

48.
Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.
Zimmermann, Johann Georg

49.
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
Hughes, Langston

50.
The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
Socrates


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