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

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Strachey, Lionel

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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

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

Eco, Umberto

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Charlie Chaplin

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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 a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.

Mary Hirsch

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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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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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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

James Thurber

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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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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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

Conrad, Joseph

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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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

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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Wilson, Flip

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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 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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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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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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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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

Knox, Ronald

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

Martin, Steve

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

Albee, Edward

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

Procter, J. J.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Eva Hoffman

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley