Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Kathryn L. Nelson

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Salma Hayek

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

Warhol, Andy

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

Trilling, Lionel

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

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Martin, Steve

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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

Charlie Chaplin

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

Maclaine, Shirley

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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Herold, Don

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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

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Isn't it sad how some people can't be funny, so they have to settle for being obnoxious?

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

Twain, Mark

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

Knox, Ronald

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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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What's the point of havin'a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?