Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Charlie Chaplin

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

Martin, Steve

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

Horace Walpole

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

Hughes, Langston

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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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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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

Warhol, Andy

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

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

Williamson, Nicol

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

Seabury, David

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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

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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

Rourke, Constance

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

Mel Brooks

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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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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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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

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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

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

Eva Hoffman

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

Wilson, Flip

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

James Thurber

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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