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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.
Humor Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Humor

1.
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole

2.
Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.
Seldes, Gilbert

3.
Comedy is a tragedy plus time.
Burnett, Carol

4.
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

5.
There is this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means; draw it all out, and hold him to it.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Gandhi, Mahatma

7.
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
Nelson, Lord

8.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks

9.
I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice.
Johnson, Samuel

10.
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Rosten, Leo

11.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Gary, Roman

12.
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
Fredrich

13.
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

14.
An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.
Rourke, Constance

15.
Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
Wilson, Flip

16.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.
Beecher, Henry Ward

17.
The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.
Knox, Ronald

18.
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

19.
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

20.
Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.
Martin, Steve

21.
Humor is a whisper from the soul, imploring mind and body to relax, let go and be at peace again.

22.
I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?
Warhol, Andy

23.
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

24.
A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.
Strachey, Lionel

25.
A rich man's joke is always funny.
Brown, Thomas Edward

26.
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

27.
If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her.
Williamson, Nicol

28.
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

29.
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

30.
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

31.
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.

32.
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

33.
Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.
Pico Iyer

34.
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

35.
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

36.
Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
Muggeridge, Malcolm

37.
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
Hughes, Langston

38.
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

39.
The secret to humor is surprise.
Aristotle

40.
The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh
Reiner, Carl

41.
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
Horace

42.
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor.
Maugham, W. Somerset

43.
There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.
Procter, J. J.

44.
A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
Conrad, Joseph

45.
Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
Colton, Charles Caleb

46.
The best defence against misguided arrogance is a keen sense of humour.
Kathryn L. Nelson

47.
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
James Thurber

48.
To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

49.
Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
Mary Hirsch

50.
Humor -- the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.


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