Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Whipple, Edwin P.

Best Quotes about Humor

1.

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

Gary, Roman

2.

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

3.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

4.

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

Lewis Mumford

5.

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

6.

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

Martin, Steve

7.

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

Horace Walpole

8.

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

Wilson, Flip

9.

There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

Eva Hoffman

10.

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

11.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

12.

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

13.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

14.

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

15.

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

16.

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

17.

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

18.

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

Twain, Mark

19.

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

Albee, Edward

20.

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

Johnson, Samuel

21.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

22.

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

Bruce, Lenny

23.

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

Fredrich

24.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

25.

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

26.

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

Salma Hayek

27.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

28.

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

Knox, Ronald

29.

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

Eco, Umberto

30.

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

31.

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

32.

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

Bill Nye

33.

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

34.

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

Nelson, Lord

35.

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

Strachey, Lionel

36.

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

37.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

Conrad, Joseph

38.

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

Proverb, Chinese

39.

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

40.

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

Herold, Don

41.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

42.

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

Diller, Phyllis

43.

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

44.

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

Procter, J. J.

45.

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

Horace

46.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

47.

Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

48.

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

Clark, Dick

49.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

50.

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