Best Quotes about Humor
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Rosten, Leo
Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists in the room will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke.
Keillor, Garrison
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
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
Humor -- the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
Herold, Don
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
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.
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
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
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
A. Whitney Brown
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
Eco, Umberto
What's the point of havin'a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?
Jeph Jacques
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
Twain, Mark
Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
Mary Hirsch
The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.
Knox, Ronald
We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.
Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of
Even the gods love jokes.
Plato
There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.
Procter, J. J.
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
Robert Benchley
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
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
T. S. Eliot
A poor joke must invent its own laughter.
Proverb, Latin
The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
Socrates
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
Nelson, Lord
Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.
Zimmermann, Johann Georg
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
Fredrich
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Dick Clark
The secret to humor is surprise.
Aristotle
To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
Burgess, (Frank) Gelett
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
Horace
If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her.
Williamson, Nicol
The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
Bruce, Lenny
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
Albee, Edward
Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth -- a sense of humor.
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole
One never needs their humor as much as when they argue with a fool.
Proverb, Chinese
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
Fortune and humor govern the world.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.
Martin, Steve
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
I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?
Warhol, Andy
Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
Diller, Phyllis
The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
James Thurber
Isn't it sad how some people can't be funny, so they have to settle for being obnoxious?
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
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward De Bono
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