Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

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

Eva Hoffman

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

James Thurber

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Gary, Roman

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

Warhol, Andy

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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Humor -- the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.

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

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Horace Walpole

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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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Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.

Mary Hirsch

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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

A. Whitney Brown

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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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

Williamson, Nicol

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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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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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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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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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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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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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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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

Edward De Bono

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

Socrates

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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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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.