Motivational Quotes

Humor

Fortune and humor govern the world.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Wilson, Flip

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Diller, Phyllis

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

A. Whitney Brown

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

Fredrich

Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Knox, Ronald

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

Jeph Jacques

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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

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Martin, Steve

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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.

Rourke, Constance

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

Albee, Edward

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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

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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

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

Charlie Chaplin

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Edward De Bono

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

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

Trilling, Lionel

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Eva Hoffman

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

Herold, Don

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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

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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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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 is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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

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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol