Motivational Quotes

Humor

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

- Sondheim, Stephen

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Maclaine, Shirley

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

Horace

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

Eco, Umberto

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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A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lewis Mumford

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

Trilling, Lionel

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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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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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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

Edward De Bono

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Mary Hirsch

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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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There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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

A. Whitney Brown

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

Fredrich

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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

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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

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