Motivational Quotes

Humor

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

- Reiner, Carl

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Rourke, Constance

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

Gary, Roman

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Albee, Edward

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

Herold, Don

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

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

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, 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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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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

Procter, J. J.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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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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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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

Mel Brooks

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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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There is this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means; draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Martin, Steve

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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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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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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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

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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

Charlie Chaplin

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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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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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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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