Motivational Quotes

Humor

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

- Sondheim, Stephen

Best Quotes about Humor

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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

2.

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

3.

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

4.

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Martin, Steve

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

Socrates

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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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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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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

14.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

Mel Brooks

17.

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

Johnson, Samuel

20.

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

21.

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

22.

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

23.

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

Martin, Steve

24.

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

A. Whitney Brown

25.

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

26.

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

27.

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

Warhol, Andy

28.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

29.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

Kleiser, Grenville

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

Lewis Mumford

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

35.

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

Williamson, Nicol

36.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

38.

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

Horace

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

Herold, Don

40.

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

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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Fortune and humor govern the world.