Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Muggeridge, Malcolm

Best Quotes about Humor

1.

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

Mary Hirsch

2.

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

3.

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

4.

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

Wilson, Flip

5.

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

Dick Clark

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Fredrich

9.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

James Thurber

10.

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

Salma Hayek

11.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

12.

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

Charlie Chaplin

13.

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

14.

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

Warhol, Andy

15.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

16.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

17.

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

18.

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

Hughes, Langston

19.

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

Strachey, Lionel

20.

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

21.

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

Horace

22.

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

Eco, Umberto

23.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

24.

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

25.

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

Bill Nye

26.

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

27.

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

Clark, Dick

28.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

29.

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

Albee, Edward

30.

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

A. Whitney Brown

31.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

33.

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

34.

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

Jeph Jacques

35.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

36.

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

Proverb, Chinese

37.

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

Knox, Ronald

38.

Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

40.

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

41.

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Horace Walpole

42.

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

Joubert, Joseph

43.

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

Mel Brooks

44.

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