Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Seabury, David

Best Quotes about Humor

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

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

Horace

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

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

Lewis Mumford

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Seabury, David

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

Dick Clark

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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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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

Eco, Umberto

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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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

Martin, Steve

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

Procter, J. J.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

Irving, Washington

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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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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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I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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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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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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

Clark, Dick

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

Albee, Edward

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

Strachey, Lionel

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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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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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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

Knox, Ronald