Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Humor

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

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

A. Whitney Brown

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

Clark, Dick

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

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Rourke, Constance

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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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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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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

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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

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

Bill Nye

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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

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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

Fredrich

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

Williamson, Nicol

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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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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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

Albee, Edward

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

Edward De Bono

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

James Thurber

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

Mary Hirsch

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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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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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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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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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Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth -- a sense of humor.

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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

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

Knox, Ronald

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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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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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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Horace Walpole

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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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

Beecher, Henry Ward