Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Whipple, Edwin P.

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Martin, Steve

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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

Martin, Steve

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

Eva Hoffman

If you're at school and you're not that bright or good-looking or popular or whatever, and one day you say something and someone laughs, well, you sort of grab onto it, don't you? you think, well I run funny and I've got this stupid big face and big thighs and no-one fancies me, but at least I can make people laugh. And It's such a nice feeling, making someone laugh, that maybe you get a bit reliant on it. Like, if you're not funny then you're not... anything.

David Nicholls

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Gary, Roman

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

James Thurber

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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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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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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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

Mel Brooks

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

Lewis Mumford

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Edward De Bono

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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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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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

Fredrich

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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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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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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

Jeph Jacques

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

Seabury, David

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

Albee, Edward