Motivational Quotes

Humor

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

- Katz, Ellie

Best Quotes about Humor

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.

Beecher, Henry Ward

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Jeph Jacques

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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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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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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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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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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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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

Edward De Bono

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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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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

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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 absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her.

Williamson, Nicol

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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Fredrich

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Where ever you find humor, you find pathos close by it side.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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

Diller, Phyllis

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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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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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 is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

Eco, Umberto

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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Socrates

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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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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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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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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Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.

Mark Twain

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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