Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Strachey, Lionel

Best Quotes about Humor

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Martin, Steve

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

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.

Mark Twain

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

Fredrich

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

Maclaine, Shirley

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Clark, Dick

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I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

Nelson, Lord

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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

James Thurber

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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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'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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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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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Mel Brooks

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

Eco, Umberto

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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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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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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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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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

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

Edward De Bono

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

Herold, Don

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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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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.