Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

Best Quotes about Humor

1.

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

Horace Walpole

2.

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

Wilson, Flip

3.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

4.

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

Rourke, Constance

5.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

6.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

7.

Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.

Salma Hayek

8.

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.

9.

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

10.

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

Charlie Chaplin

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

Mel Brooks

12.

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

Herold, Don

13.

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

14.

Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.

Mary Hirsch

15.

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

16.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

18.

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

Conrad, Joseph

19.

Where ever you find humor, you find pathos close by it side.

Whipple, Edwin P.

20.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

21.

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

Bill Nye

22.

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

Eco, Umberto

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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, 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

25.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

26.

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

Martin, Steve

27.

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

Hemingway, Ernest

28.

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

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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

30.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

31.

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

Albee, Edward

32.

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

33.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

34.

Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

Colton, Charles Caleb

35.

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

Fredrich

36.

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

Williamson, Nicol

37.

The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

38.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

39.

Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

Seabury, David

43.

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

Dick Clark

44.

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