Motivational Quotes

Humor

Even the gods love jokes.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Humor

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

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

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

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

Martin, Steve

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Diller, Phyllis

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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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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

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

Nelson, Lord

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An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.

Rourke, Constance

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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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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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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Martin, Steve

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Humor is a whisper from the soul, imploring mind and body to relax, let go and be at peace again.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Mel Brooks

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

Bruce, Lenny

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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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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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

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The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

Eco, Umberto

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

Trilling, Lionel

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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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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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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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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 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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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

Warhol, Andy

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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