Motivational Quotes

Humor

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

- Sterne, Laurence

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Albee, Edward

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

Charlie Chaplin

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

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

Eco, Umberto

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

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

James Thurber

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

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Fredrich

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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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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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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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

Horace Walpole

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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 an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Gary, Roman

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

Mel Brooks

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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

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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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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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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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