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.

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

Eva Hoffman

2.

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

Strachey, Lionel

3.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

4.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

5.

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

6.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

7.

Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

8.

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

9.

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

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

Mel Brooks

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Diller, Phyllis

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Dick Clark

18.

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

19.

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

Rourke, Constance

20.

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

Martin, Steve

21.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

22.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

23.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

24.

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

Horace

25.

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

26.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

27.

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

28.

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

Albee, Edward

29.

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

30.

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

31.

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

Joubert, Joseph

32.

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

Seabury, David

33.

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

Knox, Ronald

34.

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

James Thurber

35.

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

Herold, Don

36.

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

Trilling, Lionel

37.

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

38.

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

Conrad, Joseph

39.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

40.

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

41.

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

42.

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

Bill Nye

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Williamson, Nicol

46.

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

47.

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

48.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

49.

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

Eco, Umberto

50.

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