Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Humor

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

James Thurber

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

Fredrich

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

Conrad, Joseph

Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Knox, Ronald

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

Horace Walpole

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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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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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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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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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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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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

Hughes, Langston

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

Herold, Don

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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 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

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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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

Salma Hayek

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

Horace

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

Williamson, Nicol

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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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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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

Martin, Steve

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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Albee, Edward

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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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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

James Thurber

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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