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

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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What's the point of havin'a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?

Jeph Jacques

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

A. Whitney Brown

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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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

Charlie Chaplin

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

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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

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

Martin, Steve

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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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

Clark, Dick

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

Diller, Phyllis

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

29.

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

James Thurber

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

Seabury, David

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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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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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

Herold, Don

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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

Williamson, Nicol

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Fredrich

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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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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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Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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

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

Albee, Edward