Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Trilling, Lionel

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

The best defence against misguided arrogance is a keen sense of humour.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

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

Mary Hirsch

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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

Jeph Jacques

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

A. Whitney Brown

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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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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

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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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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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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

Procter, J. J.

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

Eco, Umberto

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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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Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

Martin, Steve

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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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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Edward De Bono

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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

Albee, Edward

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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

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

Martin, Steve

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Herold, Don

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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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

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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

Bill Nye

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