Motivational Quotes

Humor

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

- Katz, Ellie

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Proverb, Chinese

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

Strachey, Lionel

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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

Nelson, Lord

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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

Eva Hoffman

If you're at school and you're not that bright or good-looking or popular or whatever, and one day you say something and someone laughs, well, you sort of grab onto it, don't you? you think, well I run funny and I've got this stupid big face and big thighs and no-one fancies me, but at least I can make people laugh. And It's such a nice feeling, making someone laugh, that maybe you get a bit reliant on it. Like, if you're not funny then you're not... anything.

David Nicholls

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

Fredrich

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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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

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Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

Bill Nye

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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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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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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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

Horace

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

Horace Walpole

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

Edward De Bono

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Martin, Steve

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

Conrad, Joseph

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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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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.