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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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Best Quotes about Humor

1.
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov

2.
Humor -- the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.

3.
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

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.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Dick Clark

6.
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
Twain, Mark

7.
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

8.
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole

9.
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

10.
There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.
Eva Hoffman

11.
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.

12.
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

13.
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
Albee, Edward

14.
Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
Diller, Phyllis

15.
A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
Maclaine, Shirley

16.
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
Herold, Don

17.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Gary, Roman

18.
Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.
Zimmermann, Johann Georg

19.
A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.
Strachey, Lionel

20.
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

21.
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

22.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.
Beecher, Henry Ward

23.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
T. S. Eliot

24.
By blood a king, in heart a clown.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred

25.
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

26.
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Rosten, Leo

27.
The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

28.
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
James Thurber

29.
A rich man's joke is always funny.
Brown, Thomas Edward

30.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks

31.
I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice.
Johnson, Samuel

32.
Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
Bill Nye

33.
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

34.
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

35.
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
Lewis Mumford

36.
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

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

39.
The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.
Knox, Ronald

40.
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
Fredrich

41.
One never needs their humor as much as when they argue with a fool.
Proverb, Chinese

42.
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
Trilling, Lionel

43.
What's the point of havin'a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?
Jeph Jacques

44.
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
Robert Benchley

45.
Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
Martin, Steve

46.
A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
Conrad, Joseph

47.
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

48.
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
Horace

49.
As a person is so must you humor them.
Terence

50.
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
A. Whitney Brown


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