Motivational Quotes

Humor

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

- Mel Brooks

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Warhol, Andy

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Horace

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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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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If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her.

Williamson, Nicol

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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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Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life. Its mode has often been swift and coarse and ruthless, beyond art and beyond established civilization. It has engaged in warfare against the established heritage, against the bonds of pioneer existence. Its objective --the unconscious objective of a disunited people --has seemed to be that of creating fresh bonds, a new unity, the semblance of a society and the rounded completion of an American type.

Rourke, Constance

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

Mel Brooks

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

Knox, Ronald

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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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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Fredrich

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

Bill Nye

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

Socrates

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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

Hughes, Langston

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Edward De Bono

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They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

Hemingway, Ernest

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Mary Hirsch

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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

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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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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

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

Lewis Mumford

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

Albee, Edward

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