Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Williamson, Nicol

Best Quotes about Humor

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

Charlie Chaplin

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

Johnson, Samuel

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Conrad, Joseph

An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.

Rourke, Constance

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

Herold, Don

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

Martin, Steve

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

Clark, Dick

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

Seabury, David

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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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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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

Lewis Mumford

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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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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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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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

Knox, Ronald

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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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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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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 nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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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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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 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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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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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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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

Fredrich

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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 who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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

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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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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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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, 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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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

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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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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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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth -- a sense of humor.

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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