Motivational Quotes

Humor

As a person is so must you humor them.

- Terence

Best Quotes about Humor

1.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

2.

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

Martin, Steve

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

7.

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

8.

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

Bill Nye

9.

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

10.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

11.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

12.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

Hughes, Langston

14.

Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

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

Warhol, Andy

16.

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

Charlie Chaplin

17.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

18.

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

19.

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

Williamson, Nicol

20.

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

21.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

22.

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.

23.

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

Joubert, Joseph

24.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

25.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

26.

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

Jeph Jacques

27.

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

Edward De Bono

28.

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

29.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

30.

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

31.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people --that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

Thurber, James

32.

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

33.

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

Mary Hirsch

34.

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

Seabury, David

35.

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Strachey, Lionel

39.

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

Wilson, Flip

40.

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

Rourke, Constance

41.

There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.