Motivational Quotes

Humor

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

- Nelson, Lord

Best Quotes about Humor

There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

Eva Hoffman

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

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

Martin, Steve

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

Hughes, Langston

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

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

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

Gary, Roman

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Herold, Don

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

Albee, Edward

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

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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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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 is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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

Socrates

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

Edward De Bono

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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

Williamson, Nicol

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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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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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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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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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.

Diller, Phyllis

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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

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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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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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I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice.