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

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Charlie Chaplin

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

Herold, Don

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

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

James Thurber

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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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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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

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

Edward De Bono

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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

Nelson, Lord

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

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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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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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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 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

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Eco, Umberto

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

Martin, Steve

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

Jeph Jacques

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

Clark, Dick

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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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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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hughes, Langston

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

Dick Clark

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Knox, Ronald

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