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

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

Salma Hayek

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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

Charlie Chaplin

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

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

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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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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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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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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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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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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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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

Lewis Mumford

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Twain, Mark

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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

Knox, Ronald

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

Conrad, Joseph

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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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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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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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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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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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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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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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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 the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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