Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- James Thurber

Best Quotes about Humor

1.

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

2.

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

3.

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

Albee, Edward

4.

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

5.

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

6.

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

7.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

8.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

9.

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

10.

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

Eva Hoffman

11.

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

Gary, Roman

12.

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

Herold, Don

13.

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

Nelson, Lord

14.

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

James Thurber

15.

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

Mel Brooks

16.

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

17.

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

Wilson, Flip

18.

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

Horace Walpole

19.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

20.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

21.

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

22.

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

23.

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

24.

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

25.

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

Warhol, Andy

26.

The best defence against misguided arrogance is a keen sense of humour.

Kathryn L. Nelson

27.

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

28.

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

Fredrich

29.

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

Salma Hayek

30.

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

Eco, Umberto

31.

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

32.

A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.

Strachey, Lionel

33.

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

Bill Nye

34.

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

Mary Hirsch

35.

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

36.

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

Hemingway, Ernest

37.

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

Martin, Steve

38.

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

39.

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

Seabury, David

40.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

41.

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

Knox, Ronald

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

45.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

46.

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

Procter, J. J.