Motivational Quotes

Humor

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

- Sondheim, Stephen

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Herold, Don

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

Charlie Chaplin

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Horace Walpole

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

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

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

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There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

Eva Hoffman

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The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.

Knox, Ronald

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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

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

Williamson, Nicol

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

Socrates

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Fredrich

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

James Thurber

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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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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Seabury, David

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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.