Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

Best Quotes about Humor

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Hughes, Langston

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

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

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

Bill Nye

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Gary, Roman

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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

Martin, Steve

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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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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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

Williamson, Nicol

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

Conrad, Joseph

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

Bruce, Lenny

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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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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

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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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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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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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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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

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

Knox, Ronald

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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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

Diller, Phyllis

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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Strachey, Lionel

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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Edward De Bono

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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

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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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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Fredrich

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.