Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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

Herold, Don

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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

Williamson, Nicol

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

Bill Nye

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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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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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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

Warhol, Andy

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Mel Brooks

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

Albee, Edward

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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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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Horace Walpole

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

Martin, Steve

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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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Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

Lewis Mumford

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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 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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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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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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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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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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Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.

Smith, Alfred E.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Knox, Ronald