Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Kathryn L. Nelson

Best Quotes about Humor

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

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.

Wilson, Flip

The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Martin, Steve

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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

Mel Brooks

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

Hughes, Langston

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Lewis Mumford

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

31.

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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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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

Charlie Chaplin

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Socrates

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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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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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There is this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means; draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists in the room will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke.

Keillor, Garrison

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence