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

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

Mary Hirsch

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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

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

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

Mel Brooks

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

Lewis Mumford

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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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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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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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Twain, Mark

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

Knox, Ronald

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

Hughes, Langston

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

Williamson, Nicol

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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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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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There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Diller, Phyllis

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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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

Martin, Steve

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

Herold, Don

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

Strachey, Lionel

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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

Edward De Bono

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

Horace Walpole

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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.

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

A. Whitney Brown

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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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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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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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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Martin, Steve