Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Humor

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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

Nelson, Lord

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

Albee, Edward

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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

Bill Nye

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

Edward De Bono

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

Martin, Steve

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

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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

James Thurber

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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

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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

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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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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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

Wilson, Flip

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

19.

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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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

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The best defence against misguided arrogance is a keen sense of humour.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.

Knox, Ronald

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Martin, Steve

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

A. Whitney Brown

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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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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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

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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Fredrich

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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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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people --that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

Thurber, James

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