Motivational Quotes

Humor

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

- Sterne, Laurence

Best Quotes about Humor

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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

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

Seabury, David

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

Hughes, Langston

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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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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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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

Williamson, Nicol

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

Diller, Phyllis

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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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

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

Conrad, Joseph

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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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

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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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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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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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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

Knox, Ronald

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Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

Bill Nye

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Martin, Steve

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.