Motivational Quotes

Humor

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

- Muir, Frank

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Bruce, Lenny

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

Edward De Bono

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

Joubert, Joseph

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

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

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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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 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 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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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Horace Walpole

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

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

James Thurber

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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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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Albee, Edward

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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

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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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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A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

Conrad, Joseph

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Mary Hirsch

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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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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.

Smith, Alfred E.

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

Martin, Steve

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

Procter, J. J.

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Williamson, Nicol

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