Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Humor

1.

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

Fredrich

2.

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

Charlie Chaplin

3.

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.

4.

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

5.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

6.

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

Diller, Phyllis

7.

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

Socrates

8.

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

9.

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

10.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

11.

Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

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

Knox, Ronald

13.

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

Edward De Bono

14.

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

15.

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

16.

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

17.

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

Warhol, Andy

18.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

19.

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

Mel Brooks

20.

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

Irving, Washington

21.

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

22.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

23.

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

A. Whitney Brown

24.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

25.

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

Bruce, Lenny

26.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

27.

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

Albee, Edward

28.

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Eva Hoffman

32.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Twain, Mark

33.

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

Proverb, Chinese

34.

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

35.

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

Nelson, Lord

36.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

37.

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

38.

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

39.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

40.

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

41.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

42.

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

Strachey, Lionel

43.

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

44.

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.