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

1.

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

Strachey, Lionel

2.

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

3.

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

Eva Hoffman

4.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

5.

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

6.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

7.

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

Mary Hirsch

8.

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

Proverb, Chinese

9.

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

Horace

10.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

11.

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

12.

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

13.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

14.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

15.

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

16.

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

Johnson, Samuel

17.

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

Lewis Mumford

18.

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

19.

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

Warhol, Andy

20.

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

Hughes, Langston

21.

Isn't it sad how some people can't be funny, so they have to settle for being obnoxious?

22.

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

23.

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

Martin, Steve

24.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Bill Nye

28.

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

29.

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

Bruce, Lenny

30.

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

31.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

Charlie Chaplin

32.

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

33.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

37.

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

Fredrich

38.

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

39.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

40.

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

Trilling, Lionel

41.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

42.

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

Dick Clark

43.

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

Edward De Bono

44.

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

45.

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

Joubert, Joseph

46.

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

47.

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

Conrad, Joseph

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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