Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Horace

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

Muir, Frank

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

Rourke, Constance

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

Albee, Edward

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.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Seabury, David

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

Gary, Roman

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That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

A. Whitney Brown

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Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Bill Nye

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

Martin, Steve

18.

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

Proverb, Chinese

19.

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

20.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Dick Clark

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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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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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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

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

Knox, Ronald

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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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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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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Edward De Bono

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

James Thurber

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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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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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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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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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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.