Motivational Quotes

Humor

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

- Swift, Jonathan

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Bill Nye

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

Conrad, Joseph

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic good-natured laughter and is favored by the healing-power gang. Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.

King, Florence

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

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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

Socrates

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

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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Knox, Ronald

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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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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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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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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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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

Lewis Mumford

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Herold, Don

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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

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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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Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.

Martin, Steve

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

Fredrich

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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.