Motivational Quotes

Humor

As a person is so must you humor them.

- Terence

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Knox, Ronald

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

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

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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

Albee, Edward

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

James Thurber

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

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One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Jeph Jacques

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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

Rourke, Constance

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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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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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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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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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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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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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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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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Martin, Steve

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

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

Fredrich

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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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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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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

Edward De Bono

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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