Motivational Quotes

Humor

As a person is so must you humor them.

- Terence

Best Quotes about Humor

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Horace

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor.

Maugham, W. Somerset

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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

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

James Thurber

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

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

Mel Brooks

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Williamson, Nicol

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

Charlie Chaplin

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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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 simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Martin, Steve

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Eco, Umberto

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

33.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Mary Hirsch

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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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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That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

A. Whitney Brown

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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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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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

Irving, Washington

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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