Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Williamson, Nicol

Best Quotes about Humor

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

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

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

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

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

Rourke, Constance

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Charlie Chaplin

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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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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 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

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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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

Bill Nye

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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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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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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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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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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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

Fredrich

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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 is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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

Eco, Umberto

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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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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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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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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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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Horace

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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?

Dick Clark

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