Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

Best Quotes about Humor

1.

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

2.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

3.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

4.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

5.

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

Joubert, Joseph

6.

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

Bill Nye

7.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

8.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

9.

Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

11.

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

Nelson, Lord

12.

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

13.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

14.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

15.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

16.

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

Martin, Steve

17.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.

Clark, Dick

18.

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

Strachey, Lionel

19.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

Albee, Edward

20.

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

Conrad, Joseph

21.

An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.

Rourke, Constance

22.

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

23.

Humor is a whisper from the soul, imploring mind and body to relax, let go and be at peace again.

24.

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

A. Whitney Brown

25.

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

Salma Hayek

26.

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

27.

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

Williamson, Nicol

28.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

29.

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

Lewis Mumford

30.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

31.

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

32.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

James Thurber

33.

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

34.

The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

Bruce, Lenny

35.

The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

36.

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

Mel Brooks

37.

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

Johnson, Samuel

38.

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

39.

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

Martin, Steve

40.

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

Fredrich

41.

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

42.

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

Twain, Mark

43.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Wilson, Flip

47.

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

48.

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?