Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

Best Quotes about Humor

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

Fredrich

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

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

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

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

Wilson, Flip

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Knox, Ronald

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

Nelson, Lord

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

Diller, Phyllis

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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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The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

Eco, Umberto

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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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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The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

Socrates

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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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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Clark, Dick

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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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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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Rosten, Leo

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

Horace

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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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

41.

There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Horace Walpole

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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

Williamson, Nicol

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

Albee, Edward

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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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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

Irving, Washington

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

Herold, Don