Motivational Quotes

Humor

Fortune and humor govern the world.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Eco, Umberto

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

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Jeph Jacques

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

Clark, Dick

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

Nelson, Lord

10.

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

11.

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

Seabury, David

12.

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

Horace

13.

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

14.

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

Rourke, Constance

15.

Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic good-natured laughter and is favored by the healing-power gang. Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.

King, Florence

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Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Twain, Mark

17.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

18.

Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

21.

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

22.

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

Bill Nye

24.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

25.

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

Bruce, Lenny

26.

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

Trilling, Lionel

27.

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

Warhol, Andy

28.

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

29.

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

30.

The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

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

Mel Brooks

32.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

33.

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

Albee, Edward

34.

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

35.

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

36.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

James Thurber

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

Socrates

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Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.

Salma Hayek

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

Charlie Chaplin

42.

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

Hughes, Langston

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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

44.

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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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

46.

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

Dick Clark

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

Fredrich

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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

Martin, Steve

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