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.

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

Knox, Ronald

2.

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

3.

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

Mel Brooks

4.

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

5.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

9.

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

10.

If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her.

Williamson, Nicol

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Where ever you find humor, you find pathos close by it side.

Whipple, Edwin P.

14.

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

Procter, J. J.

15.

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

Wilson, Flip

16.

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

Martin, Steve

17.

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

Albee, Edward

18.

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

Warhol, Andy

19.

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

20.

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

21.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

22.

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

Horace Walpole

23.

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

24.

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

Bruce, Lenny

25.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

26.

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

27.

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

Dick Clark

28.

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

29.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

30.

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

31.

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

32.

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

33.

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

Johnson, Samuel

34.

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

Bill Nye

35.

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

36.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

37.

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

Nelson, Lord

38.

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

39.

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

40.

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

Joubert, Joseph

41.

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

Fredrich

42.

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

43.

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

Charlie Chaplin

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

47.

Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

48.

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