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

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Rourke, Constance

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

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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

Bill Nye

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

11.

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

Charlie Chaplin

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

Horace Walpole

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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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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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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

Muir, Frank

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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

Herold, Don

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

Eco, Umberto

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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 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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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 the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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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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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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

Jeph Jacques

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Horace

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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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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Hughes, Langston

45.

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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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Fredrich

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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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There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.

Procter, J. J.

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

Dick Clark