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

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

Clark, Dick

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people --that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

Thurber, James

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Nelson, Lord

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

Fredrich

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

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

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

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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

Strachey, Lionel

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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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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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Isn't it sad how some people can't be funny, so they have to settle for being obnoxious?

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

Martin, Steve

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

Albee, Edward

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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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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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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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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There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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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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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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

Horace Walpole

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

Martin, Steve

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

James Thurber

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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, 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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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.