Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Hughes, Langston

Best Quotes about Humor

1.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

2.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

3.

A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.

Horace

4.

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

Seabury, David

5.

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

Charlie Chaplin

6.

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

James Thurber

7.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

8.

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

Warhol, Andy

9.

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

10.

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

11.

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

Johnson, Samuel

12.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

13.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

14.

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

James Thurber

15.

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

16.

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

17.

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

Twain, Mark

18.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

19.

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

Proverb, Chinese

20.

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

21.

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

Bruce, Lenny

22.

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

23.

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

Horace Walpole

24.

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

25.

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

26.

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

27.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

28.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

29.

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

30.

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

Bill Nye

31.

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

32.

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

33.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

34.

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

Eco, Umberto

35.

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

Herold, Don

36.

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

37.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Procter, J. J.

43.

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

Martin, Steve

44.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

45.

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

46.

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

47.

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

Lewis Mumford

48.

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

49.

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

Wilson, Flip

50.

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