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

Twain, Mark

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

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

Knox, Ronald

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

Socrates

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

Gary, Roman

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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

Diller, Phyllis

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

Fredrich

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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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

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

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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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

Hughes, Langston

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

Horace

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

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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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

31.

One never needs their humor as much as when they argue with a fool.

Proverb, Chinese

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

33.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

James Thurber

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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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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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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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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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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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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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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There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.

Procter, J. J.

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

Jeph Jacques

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