Motivational Quotes

Humor

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

- Sondheim, Stephen

Best Quotes about Humor

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

A. Whitney Brown

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Herold, Don

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

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

Albee, Edward

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

Seabury, David

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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

Bill Nye

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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Where ever you find humor, you find pathos close by it side.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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

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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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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

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

Edward De Bono

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

Bruce, Lenny

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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Horace

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

Dick Clark

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Williamson, Nicol

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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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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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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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

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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 person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

Maclaine, Shirley

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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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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.