Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

Best Quotes about Humor

1.

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

2.

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

James Thurber

3.

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

Wilson, Flip

4.

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

5.

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

6.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

7.

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

8.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

9.

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

10.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

11.

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

Horace

12.

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

Martin, Steve

13.

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

Lewis Mumford

14.

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

15.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

16.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

17.

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

18.

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

Diller, Phyllis

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

22.

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

Conrad, Joseph

23.

There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.

Procter, J. J.

24.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

25.

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

Clark, Dick

26.

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

Eco, Umberto

27.

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

Jeph Jacques

28.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

29.

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

Dick Clark

30.

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

Mary Hirsch

31.

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

32.

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

33.

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

34.

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

Herold, Don

35.

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.