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

1.

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

2.

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

3.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

4.

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

5.

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

Wilson, Flip

6.

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

Mel Brooks

7.

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

Albee, Edward

8.

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

Dick Clark

9.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

10.

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

Truman, Harry S

11.

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

Horace Walpole

12.

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

13.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

14.

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

15.

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

16.

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

17.

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

18.

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

Bill Nye

19.

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

20.

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

21.

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

22.

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

Eva Hoffman

23.

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

24.

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

25.

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

26.

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

27.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

28.

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

Trilling, Lionel

29.

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

Proverb, Chinese

30.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

31.

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

Nelson, Lord

32.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

33.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

34.

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

Fredrich

35.

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

James Thurber

36.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

37.

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

Conrad, Joseph

38.

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

Seabury, David

39.

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

Mary Hirsch

40.

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

41.

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

42.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

43.

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

Bruce, Lenny

44.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

45.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Herold, Don

50.

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

Socrates