Motivational Quotes

Humor

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

- Katz, Ellie

Best Quotes about Humor

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

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

A. Whitney Brown

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Seabury, David

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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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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There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.

Procter, J. J.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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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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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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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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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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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

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

Knox, Ronald

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

Nelson, Lord

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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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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 the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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

Hughes, Langston

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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 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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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Martin, Steve

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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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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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 also a way of saying something serious.