Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Rourke, Constance

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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

Socrates

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

Mel Brooks

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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

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I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

Nelson, Lord

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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

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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

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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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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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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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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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Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Herold, Don

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

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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

Lewis Mumford

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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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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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

Williamson, Nicol

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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

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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

Fredrich

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Seabury, David

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

Gary, Roman

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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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Humor is a whisper from the soul, imploring mind and body to relax, let go and be at peace again.

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Edward De Bono

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Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life. Its mode has often been swift and coarse and ruthless, beyond art and beyond established civilization. It has engaged in warfare against the established heritage, against the bonds of pioneer existence. Its objective --the unconscious objective of a disunited people --has seemed to be that of creating fresh bonds, a new unity, the semblance of a society and the rounded completion of an American type.

Rourke, Constance

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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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.