Motivational Quotes

Humor

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

- Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Best Quotes about Humor

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

James Thurber

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

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

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

Charlie Chaplin

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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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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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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Edward De Bono

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

Bill Nye

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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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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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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

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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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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Herold, Don

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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

Socrates

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Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

Muir, Frank

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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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

Martin, Steve

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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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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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

Lewis Mumford

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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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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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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, 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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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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The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

Colby, Frank Moore

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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

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

Williamson, Nicol

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

Knox, Ronald

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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.