Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Williamson, Nicol

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Martin, Steve

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

Jeph Jacques

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

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

Eva Hoffman

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

Charlie Chaplin

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

Horace

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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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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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

Socrates

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Albee, Edward

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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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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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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Gary, Roman

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

Joubert, Joseph

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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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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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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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

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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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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

Williamson, Nicol

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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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Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Eco, Umberto

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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 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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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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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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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 has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life. Its mode has often been swift and coarse and ruthless, beyond art and beyond established civilization. It has engaged in warfare against the established heritage, against the bonds of pioneer existence. Its objective --the unconscious objective of a disunited people --has seemed to be that of creating fresh bonds, a new unity, the semblance of a society and the rounded completion of an American type.

Rourke, Constance

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley