Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Mary Hirsch

Best Quotes about Humor

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth -- a sense of humor.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

A. Whitney Brown

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

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

Jeph Jacques

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

Fredrich

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

Clark, Dick

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

Nelson, Lord

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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

Albee, Edward

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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

Lewis Mumford

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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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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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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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

Horace

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Edward De Bono

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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