Motivational Quotes

Humor

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

- Sterne, Laurence

Best Quotes about Humor

1.

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

Mel Brooks

2.

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

3.

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

Charlie Chaplin

4.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

5.

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

Mary Hirsch

6.

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

Eva Hoffman

7.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

8.

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

9.

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

Rourke, Constance

10.

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

Joubert, Joseph

11.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

12.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

13.

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

Socrates

14.

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

15.

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

Warhol, Andy

16.

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

17.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

18.

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

19.

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

Williamson, Nicol

20.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Twain, Mark

21.

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

Fredrich

22.

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

23.

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

24.

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

Eco, Umberto

25.

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

26.

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

27.

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

Hughes, Langston

28.

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

Wilson, Flip

29.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

30.

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

31.

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

32.

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

Proverb, Chinese

33.

Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.

Salma Hayek

34.

All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.

Bruce, Lenny

35.

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

36.

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

37.

The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

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

Horace

39.

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

40.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

41.

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

A. Whitney Brown

42.

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

43.

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

44.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

45.

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

46.

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

Dick Clark

47.

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

48.

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

49.

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.