Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Humor

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

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

James Thurber

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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

11.

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

Martin, Steve

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

Fredrich

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

Conrad, Joseph

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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 is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Knox, Ronald

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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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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Gary, Roman

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

Albee, Edward

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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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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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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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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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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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

Jeph Jacques

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.