Motivational Quotes

Humor

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

- Seldes, Gilbert

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Martin, Steve

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

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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Proverb, Chinese

10.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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

13.

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

Warhol, Andy

14.

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

Diller, Phyllis

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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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If you're at school and you're not that bright or good-looking or popular or whatever, and one day you say something and someone laughs, well, you sort of grab onto it, don't you? you think, well I run funny and I've got this stupid big face and big thighs and no-one fancies me, but at least I can make people laugh. And It's such a nice feeling, making someone laugh, that maybe you get a bit reliant on it. Like, if you're not funny then you're not... anything.

David Nicholls

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

20.

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

Williamson, Nicol

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

Hughes, Langston

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

Edward De Bono

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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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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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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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

31.

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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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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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

James Thurber

34.

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Gary, Roman

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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.