Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Best Quotes about Humor

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

Nelson, Lord

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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

Martin, Steve

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

Lewis Mumford

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

Gary, Roman

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

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

Williamson, Nicol

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

Eco, Umberto

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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

Salma Hayek

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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 role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

Bruce, Lenny

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

Charlie Chaplin

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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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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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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'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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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

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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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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Rourke, Constance

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