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

There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

Eva Hoffman

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

Martin, Steve

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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

Horace Walpole

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

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

Conrad, Joseph

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Fredrich

13.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

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

Martin, Steve

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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

Edward De Bono

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

Bill Nye

18.

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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Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

20.

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

Proverb, Chinese

21.

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

Jeph Jacques

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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 has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life. Its mode has often been swift and coarse and ruthless, beyond art and beyond established civilization. It has engaged in warfare against the established heritage, against the bonds of pioneer existence. Its objective --the unconscious objective of a disunited people --has seemed to be that of creating fresh bonds, a new unity, the semblance of a society and the rounded completion of an American type.

Rourke, Constance

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

25.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

28.

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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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 role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

Bruce, Lenny

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

Horace

32.

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

Albee, Edward

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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

Knox, Ronald

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Twain, Mark

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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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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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 laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

Hughes, Langston

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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 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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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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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

47.

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

48.

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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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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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