Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

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Best Quotes about Humor

1.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Martin, Steve

5.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

6.

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

7.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

8.

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

James Thurber

9.

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

10.

Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.

Salma Hayek

11.

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.

Wilson, Flip

12.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

13.

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

Socrates

14.

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

15.

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

16.

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

17.

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

Horace Walpole

18.

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

19.

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

Twain, Mark

20.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

Charlie Chaplin

21.

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

Dick Clark

22.

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

Bruce, Lenny

23.

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

Lewis Mumford

24.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

25.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

26.

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

Edward De Bono

27.

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

28.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

29.

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

Johnson, Samuel

30.

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

Trilling, Lionel

31.

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

32.

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

33.

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

Diller, Phyllis

34.

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

35.

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

Knox, Ronald

36.

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

37.

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

Horace

38.

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