Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Warhol, Andy

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Seabury, David

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

Warhol, Andy

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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

Horace

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

Clark, Dick

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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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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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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

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

Gary, Roman

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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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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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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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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

Bruce, Lenny

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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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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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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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

Mary Hirsch

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

Fredrich

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Diller, Phyllis

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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 laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

Hughes, Langston

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Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

Kleiser, Grenville

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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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

Knox, Ronald

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

James Thurber

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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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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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