Motivational Quotes

Humor

There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.

- Procter, J. J.

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Maclaine, Shirley

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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

Martin, Steve

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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

Albee, Edward

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

Eco, Umberto

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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

Williamson, Nicol

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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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That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

A. Whitney Brown

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

Hughes, Langston

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Humor is, I think, the sublets and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers

Rosten, Leo

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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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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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

Herold, Don

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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Seabury, David

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

29.

Isn't it sad how some people can't be funny, so they have to settle for being obnoxious?

30.

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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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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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

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

Eva Hoffman

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Clark, Dick

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

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

Bruce, Lenny