Motivational Quotes

Humor

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.

- Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

Best Quotes about Humor

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Mary Hirsch

Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Edward De Bono

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

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Warhol, Andy

11.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Horace

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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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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Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

Muir, Frank

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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

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

Socrates

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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

Procter, J. J.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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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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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

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

Conrad, Joseph

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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.