Motivational Quotes

Humor

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

- Swift, Jonathan

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Rourke, Constance

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Nelson, Lord

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

Strachey, Lionel

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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

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

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

Seabury, David

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What's the point of havin'a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?

Jeph Jacques

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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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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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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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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 the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Albee, Edward

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

Mary Hirsch

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

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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 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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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Martin, Steve

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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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

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Williamson, Nicol