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

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

Horace Walpole

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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

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

Edward De Bono

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

Eva Hoffman

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

Gary, Roman

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Bruce, Lenny

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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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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

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

Fredrich

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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.

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Procter, J. J.

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Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

Lewis Mumford

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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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

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.

Horace

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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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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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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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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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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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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 the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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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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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

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Martin, Steve

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

Hughes, Langston

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

Seabury, David

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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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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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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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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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

Gandhi, Mahatma