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

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

E. B. White

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Dick Clark

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

Salma Hayek

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

Gary, Roman

Humor is a whisper from the soul, imploring mind and body to relax, let go and be at peace again.

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Martin, Steve

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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

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

Edward De Bono

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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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Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

Trilling, Lionel

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

Fredrich

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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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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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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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

Jeph Jacques

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

A. Whitney Brown

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

Eco, Umberto

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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 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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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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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Lewis Mumford

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Herold, Don

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Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Borge, Victor

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Knox, Ronald

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Martin, Steve