Motivational Quotes

Humor

What's the point of havin'a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?

- Jeph Jacques

Best Quotes about Humor

1.

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

2.

Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

3.

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

Strachey, Lionel

4.

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

James Thurber

5.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

6.

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

7.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

8.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

9.

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

10.

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

Trilling, Lionel

11.

Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.

Smith, Alfred E.

12.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

13.

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

Wilson, Flip

14.

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

15.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

16.

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

Dick Clark

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.

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

19.

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

Gary, Roman

20.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

Conrad, Joseph

21.

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

Joubert, Joseph

22.

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

23.

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

24.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

25.

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

26.

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

Edward De Bono

27.

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

28.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

29.

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

Eco, Umberto

30.

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

31.

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

Nelson, Lord

32.

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

33.

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

34.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

35.

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

Horace Walpole

36.

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

Williamson, Nicol

37.

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

38.

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

Socrates

39.

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

Eva Hoffman

40.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

41.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

42.

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

43.

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

Knox, Ronald

44.

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

Salma Hayek

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Fredrich

48.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

49.

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

50.

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