Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Humor

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Gary, Roman

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Martin, Steve

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

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

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

Albee, Edward

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Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

Trilling, Lionel

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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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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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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 is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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

Mary Hirsch

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

Knox, Ronald

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Eva Hoffman

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

Charlie Chaplin

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

Horace

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

Seabury, David

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

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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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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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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hughes, Langston

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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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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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

Fredrich

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