Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Martin, Steve

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Martin, Steve

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

Dick Clark

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

Mary Hirsch

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

Fredrich

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

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

Lewis Mumford

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

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

James Thurber

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

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

Herold, Don

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

Socrates

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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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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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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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

Martin, Steve

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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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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Bruce, Lenny

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Wilson, Flip

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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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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Charlie Chaplin

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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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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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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

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

Edward De Bono

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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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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

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

Albee, Edward

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Humor is, I think, the sublets and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers

Rosten, Leo

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

Knox, Ronald

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

Diller, Phyllis

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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