Motivational Quotes

Humor

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.

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

Socrates

10.

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

11.

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

Eco, Umberto

12.

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

13.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

James Thurber

14.

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

15.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

16.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

17.

Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

Bill Nye

18.

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

Dick Clark

19.

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

Hemingway, Ernest

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Twain, Mark

23.

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

Edward De Bono

24.

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

25.

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

Hughes, Langston

26.

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

Warhol, Andy

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

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

Charlie Chaplin

32.

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

Salma Hayek

33.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

35.

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

Diller, Phyllis

36.

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

Johnson, Samuel

37.

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

38.

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

Trilling, Lionel

39.

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

40.

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

41.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

42.

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.

Wilson, Flip

43.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

44.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

Mel Brooks

45.

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

Lewis Mumford

46.

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

Rourke, Constance

47.

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

Nelson, Lord

48.

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

49.

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

50.

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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