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

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

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

Wilson, Flip

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

Gary, Roman

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Martin, Steve

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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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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

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

Hughes, Langston

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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Knox, Ronald

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

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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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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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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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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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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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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 also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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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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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Jeph Jacques

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

Edward De Bono

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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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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Albee, Edward

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

Herold, Don

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

Joubert, Joseph

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