Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Muggeridge, Malcolm

Best Quotes about Humor

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

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Martin, Steve

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

Lewis Mumford

The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bill Nye

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Fredrich

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

Jeph Jacques

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

Albee, Edward

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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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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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

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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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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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

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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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Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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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

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

Socrates

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

Clark, Dick

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

Martin, Steve

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

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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people --that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

Thurber, James

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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

Gary, Roman

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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

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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

Herold, Don