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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
Humor Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Humor

1.
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

2.
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

3.
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

4.
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

5.
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward De Bono

6.
Isn't it sad how some people can't be funny, so they have to settle for being obnoxious?

7.
Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.
Pico Iyer

8.
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
Fredrich

9.
A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
Conrad, Joseph

10.
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov

11.
Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
Bill Nye

12.
Even the gods love jokes.
Plato

13.
Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
Colton, Charles Caleb

14.
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

15.
The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks

17.
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

18.
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

19.
A poor joke must invent its own laughter.
Proverb, Latin

20.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Gary, Roman

21.
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
Twain, Mark

22.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
T. S. Eliot

23.
The best defence against misguided arrogance is a keen sense of humour.
Kathryn L. Nelson

24.
A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.
Strachey, Lionel

25.
The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
Socrates

26.
Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.
Zimmermann, Johann Georg

27.
One never needs their humor as much as when they argue with a fool.
Proverb, Chinese

28.
A rich man's joke is always funny.
Brown, Thomas Edward

29.
The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
Bruce, Lenny

30.
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Rosten, Leo

31.
The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.
Knox, Ronald

32.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.
Beecher, Henry Ward

33.
Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.
Seldes, Gilbert

34.
Humor -- the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.

35.
The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh
Reiner, Carl

36.
Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
Martin, Steve

37.
There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.
Procter, J. J.

38.
Fortune and humor govern the world.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.
By blood a king, in heart a clown.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred

40.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Dick Clark

41.
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks

42.
Comedy is a tragedy plus time.
Burnett, Carol

43.
Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.
Salma Hayek

44.
Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.
Martin, Steve

45.
What's the point of havin'a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?
Jeph Jacques

46.
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
James Thurber

47.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.
Clark, Dick

48.
Where ever you find humor, you find pathos close by it side.
Whipple, Edwin P.

49.
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
Albee, Edward

50.
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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