Motivational Quotes

Humor

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

- Proverb, Latin

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Seabury, David

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

A. Whitney Brown

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

Rourke, Constance

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

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

Trilling, Lionel

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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

Williamson, Nicol

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.

Salma Hayek

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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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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

James Thurber

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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

Albee, Edward

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A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.

Horace

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Procter, J. J.

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

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Edward De Bono

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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.