Motivational Quotes

Humor

As a person is so must you humor them.

- Terence

Best Quotes about Humor

Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Albee, Edward

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

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

Warhol, Andy

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

10.

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

11.

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

Rourke, Constance

12.

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

13.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

14.

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

15.

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

Fredrich

16.

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

17.

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

Johnson, Samuel

18.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

Conrad, Joseph

19.

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

20.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

21.

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

Horace

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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

23.

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

Joubert, Joseph

24.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

29.

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

30.

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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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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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

33.

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

Proverb, Chinese

34.

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

35.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Herold, Don

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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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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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

Procter, J. J.

40.

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

Strachey, Lionel

41.

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

Mel Brooks

42.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

44.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

45.

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

Edward De Bono

46.

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

Bill Nye

47.

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

48.

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

Socrates

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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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