Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Salma Hayek

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Horace

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

Eva Hoffman

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

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

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

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

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Martin, Steve

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

Martin, Steve

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

Williamson, Nicol

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

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

Mary Hirsch

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

Knox, Ronald

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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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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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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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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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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

Albee, Edward

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Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

Kleiser, Grenville

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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

Conrad, 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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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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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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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