Motivational Quotes

Humor

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

- Swift, Jonathan

Best Quotes about Humor

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.

Wilson, Flip

Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.

Salma Hayek

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Mary Hirsch

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

Edward De Bono

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

Warhol, Andy

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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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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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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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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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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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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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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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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Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

Trilling, Lionel

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

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

Diller, Phyllis

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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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There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.

Procter, J. J.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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

Martin, Steve

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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

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

Horace Walpole

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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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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.

Horace

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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 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.

David Nicholls

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